The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord - Hardcover

Erkkila, Betsy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195072111 ISBN 13: 9780195072112

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1992

Synopsis

A study of the lives and works of Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich and Gwendolyn Brooks, which focuses on the historical struggles and differences amongst women writers and feminists in order to reclaim women's literary history as a site of struggle.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This provocative study of the lives and works of Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, and Gwendolyn Brooks focuses on the historical struggles and differences among and within women writers and among feminists themselves. It explores the troubled relations women writers experienced with both masculine and feminine literary cultures, arguing that popular feminist views often romanticize and maternalize women writers and their interrelations in ways that effectively reinforce the very gender stereotypes and polarities which initially grounded women's oppression. Studying the multiple race, class, ethnic, cultural, and other locations of women within a particular social field, Erkkila offers a revisionary model of women's literary history that challenges recent feminist theory and practice along with many of our fundamental assumptions about the woman writer, women's writing, and women's literary history.

About the Author:

Betsy Erkkila is at University of Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0195072111
• ISBN 13: 9780195072112
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296