ANGELS OR DEMONS - 50 Feminist Classics in One Volume
Fifty Classics of Women's Rights, Marriage, Desire, Creativity, and Social ResistanceBy Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henrik Ibsen, Grant Allen, Ethel Sybil Turner, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, H. G. Wells, Gene Stratton-Porter, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Ada Cambridge, Mary Johnston, Marietta Holley, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Morley, Zona Gale, Elizabeth von Arnim, Edna Ferber, Rebecca Deming Moore, Margaret Oliphant, Sinclair Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, Margaret Deland, Nikolai Leskov
Length607h 8m
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ANGELS OR DEMONS gathers fifty feminist classics into a capacious genealogy of women's self-definition, social constraint, sexual politics, labor, marriage, and artistic ambition. Moving among the Gothic, domestic realism, satire, psychological fiction, social protest, and modernist experiment, the volume places canonical landmarks beside less frequently taught interventions. Its title captures a persistent cultural binary that these works scrutinize: the demand that women appear either virtuous angels or transgressive demons. The collection brings together writers from Britain, the United States, continental Europe, and Australia, whose careers span the late eighteenth century through the modernist era. In conversation, their varied voices illuminate the development of feminist thought from Enlightenment arguments for education and rational equality to Victorian critiques of separate spheres, fin-de-siècle debates over the "New Woman," and twentieth-century explorations of autonomy, class, desire, and interiority. Novelists, essayists, dramatists, and short-story writers collectively show that feminist literary history has always been international, formally inventive, and internally diverse. This volume is especially valuable for students, teachers, and general readers seeking a broad comparative encounter with feminist writing. It invites readers to trace recurring questions across distinct cultures and genres while attending to the productive disagreements among its texts. ANGELS OR DEMONS offers both an accessible survey and a rich basis for sustained discussion of literature's role in challenging inherited ideas of gender, power, and personhood.
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length607 hrs 8 mins
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Publish dateSep 26, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Unsilencing: 3 Books on Women's Activism
2ANGELS OR DEMONS - 50 Feminist Classics in One Volume
3Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 1)
4Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 2)
5Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 3)
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6Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 4)
7Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 5)
8Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 6)
9Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 7)
10Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 8)
11Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 9)
12Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 10)
13Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 11)
14Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 12)
15Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 13)
16Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 14)
17Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 15)
18Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 16)
19Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 17)
20Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) (pt. 1)
21Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) (pt. 2)
22Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
23CHAPTER ONE
24CHAPTER TWO
25CHAPTER THREE
26CHAPTER FOUR
27CHAPTER FIVE
28CHAPTER SIX
29CHAPTER SEVEN
30CHAPTER EIGHT
31CHAPTER NINE
32CHAPTER TEN
33CHAPTER ELEVEN
34CHAPTER TWELVE
35CHAPTER THIRTEEN
36CHAPTER FOURTEEN
37CHAPTER FIFTEEN
38CHAPTER SIXTEEN
39CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
40CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
41CHAPTER NINETEEN
42CHAPTER TWENTY
43CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
44CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
45CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
46CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
47CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
48CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
49CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
50CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
Through Her Eyes: 20 Women's Narratives of the Civil WarLouisa May Alcott, Eliza Frances Andrews, Susie King Taylor, William E. Barton, Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan, Susan R. Jervey, Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, Myrta Lockett Avary, Mary Ann Loughborough, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Mary Ann Harris Gay, Parthenia Antoinette Hague, George Barton, Fannie A. Beers, Maud E. Morrow, Phoebe Yates Pember, Sarah Ellen Blackwell, S. Emma E. Edmonds, Tillie Pierce Alleman199h 12m$0.99
History of the Civil War: 15 Essential BooksLouisa May Alcott, Ulysses S. Grant, James Ford Rhodes, Jefferson Davis, Frank H. Alfriend, John Torrey Morse, John Alexander Logan, Thomas Elbert Vineyard, Ephraim Douglass Adams, John Esten Cooke, William Tecumseh Sherman, John D. Billings, Charles W. Reed, James Madison Page, Heros von Borcke, Mary Boykin Chesnut343h 19m$0.99
Big Book of Christmas TalesLouisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Selma Lagerlöf, Elizabeth Harrison, Beatrix Potter, Susan Coolidge, Anthony Trollope, George MacDonald, Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Charles Dickens, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Thomas Hardy, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Booker T. Washington, Anton Chekhov, Armando Palacio Valdés, Alphonse Daudet, Benito Pérez Galdós, Marcel Prévost, Edgar Wallace, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Guy de Maupassant, Saki, Elizabeth Gaskell, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Arthur Conan Doyle259h 54m$0.99 · $0.00
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