A Critical Guide to Twentieth-Century Women

Kathleen Wheeler's critical guide is a major work of reference analysing the narrative practices and stylistic devices of women novelists all over the English-speaking world.

Kathleen Wheeler is a Fellow of Darwin College and a University Lecturer in English at Cambridge. Her recent books include Explaining Deconstruction (1995), 'Modernist Women Writers and Narrative Art (1994), and Romanticism, Pragmatism and Deconstruction (1993) available from Blackwell Publishers.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Alphabetical Table of Authors
New Forms of Realism and the Rise of Early Modernism, 1895-1925
The Influence of Psychological Writings on Literature
Introduction to Novelists, 1825-1925
Entries
Sarah Orne Jewett
Kate Chopin
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Olive Schreiner
Vernon Lee
Barbara Baynton
George Egerton
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Edith Wharton
May Sinclair
Henry Handel Richardson
Willa Cather
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Catherine Carswell
Miles Franklin
Radclyffe Hall
Rose Macaulay
Susam Glaspell
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Anna Yezierska
Hilda Doolittle (HD)
Katherine Mansfield
Rebecca West
High Modernism, Other Experiments and the Continuing Development of the Socio-Moral Novel, 1918-1925
Modernism and Stream of Consciousness Fiction
Introduction to Novelists
Entries
Mary Ellen Glasgow
Julia M. Peterkin
Jesse Fauset
Pauline Smith
Frances Newman
Virginia Woolf
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Katharine Anne Porter
Jean Rhys
Zora Neale Hurston
Djuna Barnes
Dorothy Parker
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Jean Devanny
Marjorie Barnard
Kate O'Brien
Winifred Holtby
Elizabeth Bowen
Zelda Fitzgerald
Eleanor Dark
Rosamund Lehman
Stevie Smith
Christina Stead
Kay Boyle
Anais Nin
Molly Keane
Neo-realism, the Post-War Novel, and Early Post-Modernist Innovations, 1944-1975
The New International Literatures in English
Introduction to Novelists, 1944-1975
Entries
Anna Kavan
Jessamyn West
Martha Gellhorn
Ann Petry
Eudora Welty
Marguerite Young
Hortense Calisher
Kylie Tennant
Tillie Olsen
Barbara Pym
Elizabeth Smart
Jean Stafford
Margaret Walker
Elizabeth Hardwick
Jane Bowles
Leonora Carrington
Carson McCullers
Muriel Spark
Doris Lessing
Iris Murdoch
Elizabeth Spencer
Mavis Gallant
Nadine Gordimer
Janet Frame
Kamal Markhandaya
Flannery O'Connor
Margaret Laurence
Harper Lee
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Edna O'Brien
Susan Sontag
Ann Quin
Further Internationalism, Diversification, and Experimentation, 1970-1995
Post Structuralist Theory and Fiction
Introduction to Novelists, 1970-1995
Entries
Meridel Le Sueur
Grace Paley
Elizabeth Jolley
Alison Lurie
Christine Brooke-Rose
Anita Brookner
Jane Gardam
Cynthia Ozick
Paule Marshall
Ursula Le Guin
Jennifer Johnston
Toni Cade Bambara
Shirley Hazzard
Toni Morrison
Alice Munro
Fay Weldon
Alice Thomas Ellis
Eva Figes Miriam Masoli
Antonia Byatt
Anita Desai
Patricia Grace
Bessie Head
Joanna Russ
Emma Tennant
Sashi Deshpande
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Drabble
Angela Carter
Rachell Ingalls
Maxine Hong Kingston
Bobbie Anne Mason
Susan Kenney
Anne Tyler
Ama Ata Aidoo
Rose Tremain
Buchi Emecheta
Alice Walker
Kathy Acker
Keri Hulme
Leslie Marmon Silko
Gayl Jones
Jamaica Kincaid
Michele Roberts
Gloria Naylor
Jayne Anne Phillips
Amy Tan
Louise Erdrich
Jeannette Winterson
A. L. Kennedy
Theory, Further Reading and Research
Feminist Theory and Writing
More Women Writers Worldwide
Selected Research Resources for the Twentieth Century Novel by Women
Bibliography
General Works and Criticism
Anthologies
Secondary Criticism on Individual Women Authors (Alphabetical Listing by women writer's name)
Index
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A Critical Guide to Twentieth-Century Women Novelists

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