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2) The coquette
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Written as a series of letters - between the heroine and her friends and lovers - it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly suits her. Eliza Wharton (as Whitman is called in the novel) was one of the first women in American fiction to emerge as a real person facing a dilemma in her life....
Author
Series
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific, her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both, of her novels, 'Passing' and 'Quicksand'. 'Quicksand', was autobiographical in nature and examined a woman's need for sexual fulfilment balanced against respectability and acceptance amid a deeply religious society. The novel is deeply pessimistic and ends as the protagonist...
6) Ex-wife
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and never did. Nor, I suspect, does he. Nowadays, when the catastrophe that it seemed to be and its causes are matters equally inconsequential, I am increasingly disposed to the belief that he brought himself to the point of deserting me because I made such outrageous scenes at first mention of the possibility"--
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
A US soldier confronts the horrors of the Holocaust in this New York Times–bestselling novel from acclaimed WWII correspondent Martha Gellhorn. Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, Jacob Levy is a typical American boy. He never gives much thought to world affairs-or to his Jewish heritage. But when the United States joins the Allied effort to stop Hitler, Jacob's life and sense of identity are on course to change forever. As a soldier in the last...
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
The leading feminist intellectual of her day, Margaret Fuller has been remembered for her groundbreaking work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, which recharted the gender roles of nineteenth-century men and women. In this new collection, the full range of her literary career is represented--from her earliest poetry to her final dispatch from revolutionary Italy. For the first time, the complete texts of Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Summer on...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Torremozas
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
Español
Description
"Segunda edición (primera en 1988) de poemas que incorporan a personajes mujeres en encrucijadas de vida o muerte. Dimensiones históricas y étnicas relevantes como la muerte de la última yámana se mezclan a una peculiar intensidad lírica del sujeto femenino"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
13) Microfictions
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
