The Essential Feminist Collection – 60 Powerful Classics in One Volume
Sixty Classics of Women's Rights, Intellectual Freedom, and Social ChangeBy Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henrik Ibsen, Kate Chopin, Grant Allen, 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, Zona Gale, Elizabeth von Arnim, D. H. Lawrence, Margaret Oliphant, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Margaret Mitchell, Harriet Martineau, Nikolai Leskov, Margaret Deland, Sojourner Truth, Mary Ware Dennett, John Stuart Mill, Sarah H. Bradford, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Fuller
Length890h 14m
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The Essential Feminist Collection gathers sixty canonical and rediscovered texts that chart feminism's literary, ethical, and political emergence across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Novels, short fiction, essays, speeches, autobiographical testimony, social criticism, and dramatic writing illuminate questions of education, marriage, labor, property, sexual autonomy, race, class, and civic equality. Domestic realism and Gothic unease meet utopian speculation, naturalist critique, and persuasive feminist polemic, producing a capacious record of resistance and imaginative reform. Its contributors form a striking transatlantic and international constellation of novelists, philosophers, reformers, activists, and public intellectuals. Their work intersects with abolitionism, suffrage, liberal political thought, the woman-question debate, social purity campaigns, Progressive-era reform, and modernist experiments in consciousness and form. Voices shaped by British, American, Russian, Scandinavian, and Australian contexts reveal that feminism developed not as a single doctrine but through contested encounters with law, religion, industrial modernity, colonial inheritances, and everyday domestic life. This volume is indispensable for readers seeking both an introduction to feminist literary history and a rich comparative archive. It invites sustained attention to the dialogue among genres, generations, and political positions, offering educational breadth without flattening disagreement. Students, scholars, and general readers will find in these works a powerful account of how literature has challenged inherited social arrangements and imagined more equitable futures.
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GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length890 hrs 14 mins
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Publish dateSep 25, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Sister Josepha & Other Tales (Annotated)
26CHAPTER 3
2Fiction
27CHAPTER 4
3Camilla (Fanny Burney)
28CHAPTER 5
4CHAPTER 1
29CHAPTER 6
5CHAPTER 2
30CHAPTER 7
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6CHAPTER 3
31CHAPTER 8
7CHAPTER 4
32CHAPTER 9
8CHAPTER 5
33CHAPTER 10
9CHAPTER 6
34CHAPTER 11
10CHAPTER 7
35CHAPTER 12
11CHAPTER 2
36CHAPTER 13
12CHAPTER 3
37CHAPTER 2
13CHAPTER 4
38CHAPTER 3
14CHAPTER 5
39CHAPTER 4
15CHAPTER 6
40CHAPTER 5
16CHAPTER 7
41CHAPTER 6
17CHAPTER 8
42CHAPTER 7
18CHAPTER 9
43CHAPTER 8
19CHAPTER 10
44CHAPTER 9
20CHAPTER 11
45CHAPTER 2
21CHAPTER 12
46CHAPTER 3
22CHAPTER 13
47CHAPTER 4
23CHAPTER 14
48CHAPTER 5
24CHAPTER 15
49CHAPTER 6
25CHAPTER 2
50CHAPTER 7
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