Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "Writing Women's Rights - from Enlightenment to Ecofeminism"

Part I: Rights



Like Nobody Else: women and independence in the novels of Charlotte Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft



Romantic Women Travel Writers, Politics and the Environment: An ecofeminist reading of the Swiss landscape



Feminism and Animal Advocacy in the Long Nineteenth Century: Anne Bronte and the 'abuses of society'



"They all revolved about her": Disability, femininity and power in mid-Victorian women's writing



The "quest for harmony"? Utopia, matriarchal communities and feminist self-critique



Jan Morris and the Territory Between: Interrogating nation and normality in contemporary Welsh trans writing

Part II: Networks



"Men shall not make us foes": Charlotte Bronte's letters and her female friendship networks



Transatlantic Feminism and Antislavery Activism: Women's networks, letter writing and literature in the long nineteenth century



Forgotten Feminist Fiction: Netta Syrett, New Woman writing and women's suffrage



"It was little more than a dining club": Examining the epistolary networks of Willa Muir and Helen B. Cruickshank in the founding of Scottish PEN



"What means a frontier?": Nancy Cunard, feminist internationalism and the Spanish Civil War

Part III: Bodies



Reputation of [her] Pen: Retrieving the black female body from the margins of the page and the stage



"We wear the bandages, but our limbs have not grown to them": Eugenic feminism and female economic dependence in Mona Caird, Olive Schreiner, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman



Lesbian-Trans-Feminist Modernism and Sexual Science: Irene Clyde and Urania



"Beauty in Revolt": Fashioning feminists in Rebecca West and Jean Rhys



"The rule of three": Textual triads, trialogues and women's voices in Sylvia Plath, Jackie Kay and debbie tucker green



HANSON, Clare: Feminism, Eugenics and Genetics: From convergence to contestation

Part IV: Production



"O Happiness, thou pleasing dream, / Where is thy substance found?": Anne Steele's public and private eighteenth-century writings on happiness



"Dearest Norah...": The professional and personal relationships forged between an editor and her authors



Feminist citation in Buchi Emecheta's Early Fiction and Autobiography: Publishing race, class, and gender



"Working with cloth": Materialising women's creative labour in the work of Rosamond Lehmann, Beryl Bainbridge and Joan Riley



"To the sisters I always wanted": Women, writers' groups and print culture in Glasgow, 1980-1988



Mother Country: Leonora Brito writes Wales - black British identity, maternity and memory in the Welsh short story

Part V: Activism



In a Circle with Mary Hays: Writing novels to reform society in the 1790s



In the Advance Guard of Victorian Literary Feminism: The actress as independent woman and social reformer in Eliza Lynn's Realities: A Tale (1851)



"Rice puddings, made without milk": Mother Seacole reforms 'home habits' in the Crimea.



"Your Great Adventure is to report her faithfully": The centring of women's voices and stories in suffrage theatre



A Life Can Be a Manifesto: Connecting Bernadine Evaristo to a history of feminist manifestos



Open Clasp as an example of feminist theatre practice



Protecting the Land, Safeguarding the Future: Ecofeminism, activist women's writing and contemporary publishing in Wales

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• Teorias literárias
• Estudos literários: geral
• O feminismo e teoria feminista

women's rights history;feminist literary criticism;ecofeminism theory;transnational feminism;suffrage theatre analysis;antislavery literature;feminist activism in British writing