Textual Liberation (Routledge Revivals)

European Feminist Writing in the Twentieth Century

Helena Forsas-Scott

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781138825598
• eBook ISBN: 9781317578147
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Feminist writing has emerged in recent years as a major influence of twentieth-century European literature. Textual Liberation, first published in 1991, provides a timely and wide-ranging survey of twentieth-century feminist writing in Europe, presenting texts from a number of countries and highlighting some of the transnational parallels and contrasts.

The contributors emphasize the wider contexts- political, social, economic- in which the texts were produced. They cover feminist literature in Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia, France, Spain, Italy, and Turkey, and consider a range of genres, including the novel, poetry, drama, essays, and journalism. Each chapter contains an extensive bibliography with special emphasis on material available in English.

A stimulating introduction to the development of European feminist writing, Textual Liberation will be an invaluable resource for students of women's literature, women's studies, and feminism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Landscape for a literary feminism: British women writers 1900 to the present
• 3 Egalitarianism and feminine consciousness: feminist writing in Scandinavia
• 4 The limits of patriarchy: German feminist writers
• 5 Feminist writing in Eastern Europe: the problem solved?
• 6 The birth, death, and rebirth of feminist writing in Russia
• 7 Aux armes, citoyennes!
• 8 Feminist writers in Spain since 1900: from political strategy to personal inquiry
• 9 Women's viewpoint: expectations and experience in twentieth-century Italy
• 10 Unmuffled voices in the shade and beyond: women's writing in Turkish
• Index