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
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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
Length603 hrs 2 mins
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Publish dateSep 26, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Unsilencing: 3 Books on Women's Activism
26CHAPTER 3
2ANGELS OR DEMONS - 50 Feminist Classics in One Volume
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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