Textual Liberation (Routledge Revivals)

<p>Feminist writing has emerged in recent years as a major influence of twentieth-century European literature. <i>Textual Liberation </i>first published in 1991 provides a timely and wide-ranging survey of twentieth-century feminist writing in Europe presenting texts from a number of countries and highlighting some of the transnational parallels and contrasts. </p><p>The contributors emphasize the wider contexts- political social economic- in which the texts were produced. They cover feminist literature in Britain Scandinavia Germany Eastern Europe Russia France Spain Italy and Turkey and consider a range of genres including the novel poetry drama essays and journalism. Each chapter contains an extensive bibliography with special emphasis on material available in English. </p><p>A stimulating introduction to the development of European feminist writing <i>Textual Liberation</i> will be an invaluable resource for students of women’s literature women’s studies and feminism. </p>