Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature - Couverture rigide

Beer, Anna

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0861542932 ISBN 13 : 9780861542932

Editeur : Oneworld Publications, 2022

Synopsis

Anna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literature

Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen.

Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history.

'Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' A.L. Kennedy

Ever since Sappho first put stylus to papyrus, women who write have been labelled mad, undisciplined and dangerous. Funny and provocative, Eve Bites Back offers an alternative history of English literature. Placing the female contemporaries of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton centre stage, Anna Beer builds a vibrant new canon through Restoration wits, scandalous sensation novelists and medieval mystics.

Delving into the lives and work of eight pioneers - Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Aemilia Lanyer, Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Austen and Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Beer uncovers the struggles and triumphs of these gamechangers, ground-breakers and genre-makers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anna Beer is a cultural historian and biographer. She is author of Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music and Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh, as well as biographies of Bess Throckmorton, William Shakespeare and John Milton. She is a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oneworld Publications
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0861542932
• ISBN 13: 9780861542932
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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