The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature

London: QPD by arrangement with Bloomsbury Publishing, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii 1171 No isbn offered. Overseas customers please note the book is heavy and will attract additional postage. The edges are bumped, else in excellent condition: clean, unmarked and solid. Title on cover: "From Sappho to Atwood, Women's Writing Through the Ages and Throughout the World." "An international guide to women's writing throughout the ages. The essays introduce women's writing by area and period, followed by a comprehensive alphabetical reference section which includes authors, texts and up-to-date bibliographies for further research." CONTENTS: Greek and Roman antiquity / Richard Hawley Medieval Britain / Gopa Roy Britain 1500-1800 / Sue Wiseman Nineteenth-century Britain / Kathryn Burlinson Twentieth-century Britain / Laura Marcus Ireland / Ailbhe Smyth France : the middle ages to 1700 / Elizabeth Woodrough Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France / Alex Hughes, Jennifer Birkett Twentieth-century France / Lyn Thomas Germany, Austria and Switzerland / Agnes Cardinal Spain / Stephen M. Hart Italy / Ursula Fanning Porutgal / Darlene J. Sadlier Modern Greece / Maria Moore The Netherlands and Flanders / Olga van Marion Scandinavia / Karen Klitgaard Eastern Europe / Joanna Labon Russia / Charlotte Rosenthal, Mary Zirin Early North America / Sharon Harris Nineteenth-century US / Carol Klimick Cyganowski Twentieth-century US / Mara McFadden Canada / Aritha van Herk Latin America / Luiza Lobo The English-speaking Caribbean / Susheila Nasta French Antilles / Vivienne Liley Australia / Shirley Walker New Zealand and Oceania / Lydia Wevers East Africa / Phyllis Pollard Southern Africa / Dorothy Driver West Africa / Jane Bryce Turkey and the Arab middle east / Fatma Moussa-Mahmoud Israel / Risa Domb The Indian subcontinent / Maya Jaggi South-east Asia / Koh Tai Ann China / Zhu Hong Japan / Noriyo Hayakawa, Akiko Ogata Critical approaches / Catherine Belsey.