Background
Donovan, Josephine Campbell was born on March 10, 1941 in Manila. Came to the United States, 1941.
(An updated and revised edition of a classic study, this w...)
An updated and revised edition of a classic study, this widely cited book presents a lucid review of all of Jewett's work, which includes nearly 200 stories and novels. In a new preface Donovan discusses the "culture war" that has recently erupted over Jewett.
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( A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of Am...)
A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, which treats the nineteenth-century realists, this work analyzes the writing of major women writers of the early twentieth century—Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Ellen Glasgow. The author sees the Demeter-Persephone myth as central to these writers' thematics, but interprets the myth in terms of the historical transitions taking place in turn-of-the-century America. Donovan focuses on the changing relationship between mothers and daughters—in particular upon the "new women's" rebellion against the traditional women's culture of their nineteenth-century mothers (both literary and literal). An introductory chapter traces the male-supremacist ideologies that formed the intellectual climate in which these women wrote. Reorienting Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow within women's literary traditions produces major reinterpretations of their works, including such masterpieces as Ethan Frome, Summer, My Antonia, Barren Ground, and others.
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(Traces the development of the American feminist movement,...)
Traces the development of the American feminist movement, looks at important leaders and theorists, and describes the influence of Marxism, Freud, and existentialism.
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(A collection of five essays (plus preface and afterword) ...)
A collection of five essays (plus preface and afterword) by noted feminist critics, this book provides an overview of the existing body of the feminist literary criticism, promotes and understanding of the issues feminist critics are currently discussing among themselves and with other critics, and proposes a theoretical frame work for understanding this new critical direction. It is the first collection to deal exclusively with certain theoretical questions being raise about literature by feminists, and as such, establishes a point of departure for further development of feminist critical theory.
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Donovan, Josephine Campbell was born on March 10, 1941 in Manila. Came to the United States, 1941.
Bachelor cum laude, Bryn Mawr College, 1962; Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1971.
Teaching assistant comparative literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1967-1968, 70;
assistant professor honors program, U. Kentucky, 1971-1976;
coordinator women's studies program, U. N.H., 1977-1980;
associate professor department English, U. Maine, Orono, 1987-1990;
professor department English, U. Maine, Orono, since 1990. Visiting lecturer Bowdoin College, 1976. Visiting scholar Tulsa Center for Study ofWomen's Literature, Graduate Program in Modern Letters, U. Tulsa, 1982.
Visiting associate professor George Washington University, 1983-1984. Writer, scholar, editor, consultant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1980-1987. Member women's studies committee U. Maine,1987-.
(A collection of five essays (plus preface and afterword) ...)
( A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of Am...)
(An updated and revised edition of a classic study, this w...)
(Traces the development of the American feminist movement,...)
Member Modern Language Association, National Women's Studies Association.