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About the book
The earliest written documents in medieval English are covered in an historical - and geographical - sweep that takes us up to the present, and reflects the spread of literacy, the history of colonisation and the development of postcolonial cultures using and changing the English language. The Guide effectively begins with the visionary works of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in the fourteenth century then ranges widely through the centuries to encompass current writing.
Geographical diversity is reflected in entries on writers and writing from the UK and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, the Caribbean, India and Africa. While the main focus of the book is on author entries, attention is also given to individual works and genres. The key titles are there, but so are the surprises, creating a virtual reading list which covers the span of women's writing. Thematic entries encapsulate movements, schools, ideas: captivity narrative, sensation novels, scandalous memoirs, bluestockings, realism, romance, diaries and journals, postmodernism are some such. Writing on cookery, travel and gardening is fully recognised; and children's books, detective fiction and science fiction are generously acknowledged. 253 x 177 mm 704pp over 100 illustrations 0 521 49525 3 HB 0 521 66813 1 PB Publication: 30 September 1999
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