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The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Bellybanded set, Volumes 1 and 2)
Librarian Note: This set contains Volume 1 (ISBN 13: 978-0-393-93013-9, ISBN 10: 0-393-93013-0) and Volume 2 (ISBN 13: 978-0-393-93014-6, ISBN 10: 0-393-93014-9), both of which can be purchased and/or read separately because of "flexible package options."
Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of...more
Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of...more
Paperback, 2452 pages
Published
February 1st 2007
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published March 1st 1985)
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This book is a fantastic resource, not just for the literature itself, but really for the chapters the authors wrote the historical/literary context for each era. Those sections alone are worth reading as a sort of separate work from the literature itself.
Another fascinating thing about this book was the biographical information, especially since it seemed that every single woman author in the 19th century seemed to suffer excruciatingly from various physical ailments. I am sure there are alread...more
Another fascinating thing about this book was the biographical information, especially since it seemed that every single woman author in the 19th century seemed to suffer excruciatingly from various physical ailments. I am sure there are alread...more
Everybody should own a copy of this. It's abso-frikkin-lutely brilliant.
Some of the authors/poets included:
Sylvia Plath
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Bronte Sisters
Jane Austen
Alice Walker
Margaret Atwood
Gwendolyn Brooks
Emily Dickinson
Hilda Doolittle
Anne Finch
Marianne Moore
Dorothy Parker
Anne Sexton
Sojourner Truth
Louisa May Alcott
Kate Chopin
Edith Wharton
Virginia Woolf
Katherine Mansfield
Shirley Jackson
Angela Carter
Queen Elizabeth I
Women from all times, women from different classes, different races. Ah...more
Some of the authors/poets included:
Sylvia Plath
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Bronte Sisters
Jane Austen
Alice Walker
Margaret Atwood
Gwendolyn Brooks
Emily Dickinson
Hilda Doolittle
Anne Finch
Marianne Moore
Dorothy Parker
Anne Sexton
Sojourner Truth
Louisa May Alcott
Kate Chopin
Edith Wharton
Virginia Woolf
Katherine Mansfield
Shirley Jackson
Angela Carter
Queen Elizabeth I
Women from all times, women from different classes, different races. Ah...more
Oh my god, I found it!
It is no hyperbole to say that this book saved my life. I stole it off the shelves from my high school's bookstore & through it found many authors that would have taken me years to find otherwise, some not at all. The stories, novellas, & excerpts are arranged chronologically, with heaps of footnotes & information about the women who wrote them. Whoever edited this, Sanda M. Gilbert? A fucking genius, I bet she's a huge lez!
It is no hyperbole to say that this book saved my life. I stole it off the shelves from my high school's bookstore & through it found many authors that would have taken me years to find otherwise, some not at all. The stories, novellas, & excerpts are arranged chronologically, with heaps of footnotes & information about the women who wrote them. Whoever edited this, Sanda M. Gilbert? A fucking genius, I bet she's a huge lez!
Contains complete novels, such as Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. An excellent compendium of too neglected by academia for too long literature.
Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Boxed set, Volumes 1 and 2) by Elaine Showalter (2007)
An anothology well representing women lit, used by Bender in a class at Alma. There are some good pieces in it, and nothing against the feminists of the world -- I surround myself with empowered women, God knows -- but I just got tired of story after story with the same themes: women are just as good, don't hold us down, it's a man's world, I'm going crazy, let's try suicide. Sorry, I'm going to hell, I don't mean to mock these poor women, I understand, but I'm just saying: in a class with one o...more
This is a college textbook that I thoroughly enjoyed.
in college
This is the textbook for my terrifically useless Feminism 101 indoctrination masquerading as an online Women and Literature class. I would much rather read entire books by women authors rather than trying to explicate whether a two-paragraph section of A Room of One's Own is constructivist or essentialist feminist literature. While I'm all for discovering new women writers, this book--at over 5lbs of 1,000 rice-paper-thin pages--is overwhelming and lacks direction. Plus, I hate this class.
This gigantic tome contains works by woman from Julian of Norwich and Anne Bradstreet to the Brontes to Dorothy Parker to Sexton and Plath to Maya Angelou.
I own a copy, but wouldn't give it up if you paid me.
Women from all walks of life and ages and countries have been gathered together and their words are magic.
GREAT reference material here. Could easily be found, used, in a college bookstore.
I own a copy, but wouldn't give it up if you paid me.
Women from all walks of life and ages and countries have been gathered together and their words are magic.
GREAT reference material here. Could easily be found, used, in a college bookstore.
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Great read!
Jan 03, 2010
Melynda Burt
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lovers of fiction
i get lost in this book every time i pick it up! an incredible collection that crosses virtually every style of fiction. puts the genre in a unique light and perspective.
I sold this when I was poor, and I totally regret it.
this pointed me in the right direction way back when.
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Shelves:
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Sandra M. Gilbert is the author of numerous volumes of criticism and poetry, as well as a memoir. She is coeditor (with Susan Gubar) of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. A Distinguished Professor of English emerita at the University of California, Davis, she lives in Berkeley, California.
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