Physiognomy, Fairy Tales and Feminism

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Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Nineteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short-Story Writers, & Other Creative Writers
Volume 212. Topics: the American Civil War, Fairy Tales, and Physiognomy.
Project Editor: Katryn D. Darrow
* Published by Gale
* Published/Released: July 2009
* ISBN 13: 9781414434100
* ISBN 10: 1414434103

Here is a convenient source of commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed poets, novelists, short story writers, dramatists and philosophers who died between 1800 and 1899. Each volume presents overviews of four to eight authors with chronologically arranged criticism representing the entire range of response to each author. Entries typically include an author portrait, an introduction to the author, a primary bibliography, annotated criticism and an annotated list of further reading sources. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text.
Every fourth volume is a Topics volume covering major literary movements, trends and other topics related to nineteenth-century literature. Volumes include author, nationality, topic and title indexes; a cumulative title index to the entire series is published separately.

It includes the following reprints:

Physiognomy:
Physiognomy in Wuthering Heights by Graeme Tyler (formely published in Brontë Studies)
Fairy Tales:
Investigating the Third Story:"Bluebeard" and "Cinderella" in Jane Eyre by Victoria Anderson (previously published in Horrifying Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature)

Feminisms Redux
An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism
Edited and with an Introduction by Robyn Warhol-Down and Diane Price Herndl
Rutgers University Press
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4620-9
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4619-3
Publication Date: November 2009

The 1991 landmark edition of Feminisms presented the most comprehensive collection of American and British feminist literary criticism ever published. By 1997, realizing the need to update the work to remain within the expanded parameters of feminist literary discourse, the volume was revised to include more than two dozen new essays.
Now, at the dawn of a new century of thought and action, it is important once again to revisit the canon of feminist literary criticism and theory and re-establish the measure for representing the latest developments in the field. Robyn Warhol-Down and Diane Price Herndl have joined together once more to provide academics and general readers with a newly revised and indispensable collection of essays representing the range of feminist literary criticism.
Feminisms Redux, presented in a concise format, includes many essays from the second edition that continue to speak to current concerns and also provides readers with new contributions that address work in postcolonial studies, queer theory, and disability studies. As in the earlier volumes, the editors have gathered the full text of original articles and book chapters, with no edited excerpts. The range of essays focuses not only on gender and sex, but also on sexuality, race, class, nationality, and (dis)ability, and the intersections among these categories as they play out in writing by and about women. More than a revision of archetypal work, Feminisms Redux represents the dawning of a new classic.

Among others it includes the classical Four Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

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