Sandra M. Gilbert

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

The Tradition in English

Norton Anthology of Literature by Women

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Essays about female from one of the greatest literary critics in America

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

English

Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions

A collection of essays that reexamine literature through a feminist gaze from "one of our most versatile and gifted writers" (Joyce Carol Oates). "We think back through our mothers if we are women," wrote Virginia Woolf. In this groundbreaking series of essays, Sandra M. Gilbert explores how our literary mothers have influenced us in our writing and in life. She considers the effects of these literary mothers by examining her own history and the work of such luminaries as Charlotte Brontë, Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath. In the course of the book, she charts her own development as a feminist, demonstrates ways of understanding the dynamics of gender and genre, and traces the redefinitions of maternity reflected in texts by authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot. Throughout, Gilbert asks major questions about feminism in the twentieth century: Why and how did its ideas become so necessary to women in the sixties and seventies? What have those feminist concepts come to mean in the new century? And above all, how have our intellectual mothers shaped our thoughts today?

Rereading Women

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Susan Gubar

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Traditions in English

Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women's writing in English.

The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

Signet Classic

The Secret Garden

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See pictures. Book was part of a classroom library 

Delaware

Kate Chopin

Michigan

Stories tell of a woman who leaves her husband and family and life among the Creoles of Louisiana.

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

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Paperback copy of The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin

Oklahoma

Ohio

American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

A brilliant, sweeping history of the contemporary women’s movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped it. Forty years after their first groundbreaking work of feminist literary theory, The Madwoman in the Attic, award-winning collaborators Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar map the literary history of feminism’s second wave. From its stirrings in the midcentury—when Sylvia Plath, Betty Friedan, and Joan Didion found their voices and Diane di Prima, Lorraine Hansberry, and Audre Lorde discovered community in rebellion—to a resurgence in the new millennium in the writings of Alison Bechdel, Claudia Rankine, and N. K. Jemisin, Gilbert and Gubar trace the evolution of feminist literature. They offer lucid, compassionate, and piercing readings of major works by these writers and others, including Adrienne Rich, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Susan Sontag, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Toni Morrison. Activists and theorists like Nina Simone, Gloria Steinem, Andrea Dworkin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Judith Butler also populate these pages as Gilbert and Gubar examine the overlapping terrain of literature and politics in a comprehensive portrait of an expanding movement. As Gilbert and Gubar chart feminist gains—including creative new forms of protests and changing attitudes toward gender and sexuality—they show how the legacies of second wave feminists, and the misogynistic culture they fought, extend to the present. In doing so, they celebrate the diversity and urgency of women who have turned passionate rage into powerful writing.

Still Mad

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New Jersey

On February 10, 1991, Elliot Gilbert, a sixty-year-old professor of English, checked into a major medical center for routine prostate surgery. Twenty-four hours later, he was pronounced dead in the recovery room. To this day, no one from the hospital has told his family how or why he died. In Wrongful Death his widow has produced a searingly frank account of one family's experience with a kind of medical disaster that occurs surprisingly often but is all-too-rarely discussed in a political arena dominated by concerns about the escalating costs of malpractice insurance. As her story unfolds, Sandra Gilbert describes the numbing shock into which she and her children were plunged by her husband's inexplicable death as well as the stages of grief they endured as they struggled to come to terms with their loss. But her major focus is on the process of discovery through which, with the help of friends and lawyers, they began to learn something about what had happened to Elliot. What are the implications of such a medical tragedy for the deceased and for his survivors? How does it feel to confront the possibility that a loved one has suffered what the law calls a "wrongful death"? As she examines the bewildering complexity of the legal, social, and medical questions surrounding "adverse events" like the one that killed her husband, Gilbert shows how vulnerable we all are to the power of the health-care establishment.

Wrongful Death: a Memoir

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Colorado

Washington

The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

An analysis of Victorian women writers, this pathbreaking book of feminist literary criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that "the personal was the political, the sexual was the textual."

"The classic argument for a women's literary tradition."--Scott Heller, Chronicle of Higher Education

"The authors force us to take a new look at the grandes dames of English literature, and the result is that they will never seem quite the same again."--Le Anne Schreiber, New York Times Book Review

"Imperative reading."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World

"A masterpiece."--Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"The Madwoman in the Attic, The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century, originally published in 1979, has long since become a classic, one of the most important works of literary criticism of the 20th century. This new edition contains an introduction titled 'The Madwoman in the Academy' that is, quite simply, a delight to read, warmly witty, provocative, informative and illuminating."--Joyce Carol Oates, Princeton University

"A groundbreaking study of women writers. . . . The book brought the concerns of feminism to the study of female writers and presented the case for the existence of a distinctly feminine imagination."--Martin Arnold, The New York Times

"The authors are brilliant academics but they wear their erudition lightly. It remains imperative reading for those who want to understand better the grandes dames of English literature, and is still one of the most powerful pieces of writing from a feminist point of view. Argumentative, polemical, witty and thought-provoking, this is a book which will make the reader return to the original texts." --Yorkshire Post (Leeds)

"A feminist classic and still one of the best books on the female Victorian writers."--Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review

The Madwoman in the Attic

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Roger J. Porter

This collection of texts is like watching the popular Hulu series “The Bear”. It’s an anthology of personal essays centered on the joys and challenges of preparing and sharing meals, discovering new ways of cooking, being in the culinary scene, cultural dishes and traditions. It’s an amazing and entertaining collection. ￼

California

A glorious survey of food writing from the classical world to the present. Edited by influential literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert and award-winning restaurant critic and professor of English Roger Porter, Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and vast historical sweep into one groundbreaking volume. Beginning with the taboos of the Old Testament and the tastes of ancient Rome, and including travel essays, polemics, memoirs, and poems, the book is divided into sections such as “Food Writing Through History,” “At the Family Hearth,” “Hunger Games: The Delight and Dread of Eating,” “Kitchen Practices,” and “Food Politics.” Selections from writings by Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain, Bill Buford, Michael Pollan, Molly O’Neill, Calvin Trillin, and Adam Gopnik, along with works by authors not usually associated with gastronomy—Maxine Hong Kingston, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Hemingway, Chekhov, and David Foster Wallace—enliven and enrich this comprehensive anthology. “We are living in the golden age of food writing,” proclaims Ruth Reichl in her preface to this savory banquet of literature, a must-have for any food lover. Eating Words shows how right she is.

Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing

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Now, the much-anticipated Third Edition responds to the wealth of writing by women across the globe with the inclusion of 61 new authors (219 in all) whose diverse works span six centuries.nbsp; A more flexible two-volume format and a versatile new companion reader make the Third Edition an even better teaching tool."As diversity itself has shaped the evolution of feminist criticism, from its early preoccupation with women's shared experiences to its more recent absorption in the complex issues and assumptions informing English-language texts by women writers of diverse geographical, cultural, racial, sexual, religious, and class origins and influences, so diversity has shaped the revisions of this anthology." --From the Preface

Smoke free home. This book is annotated. Creasing on outer edge of cover spine back cover and edges of pages. Underline in note marks in about 20% of the book. Paperback.

Louisiana

Florida

Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve

Prominent critic, poet and memoirist Sandra M Gilert -- author of The Madwoman in the Attic explores our relationship to death though literature, history, poetry and societal practices.

Death's Door

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Ruth Reichl

Eating Words by Sandra M. Gilbert and Roger J. Porter is a thought-provoking exploration of food, language, and culture. This insightful collection of essays delves into the ways that food serves as a metaphor for language, power, and identity. Through engaging and intellectually stimulating discussions, the authors examine how food influences societal structures, personal relationships, and cultural expressions. This paperback edition is in excellent condition, offering an enriching read for those interested in food studies, cultural criticism, and the intersection of language and life.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Norton Anthology of Food Writing

"A glorious survey of food writing from the classical world to the present, "--NoveList.

Eating Words

Collects the novels, stories, poems, essays, memoirs, diaries, and letters of more than 170 writers--American, English, Canadian, and others writing in English

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Norton Anthology of Literature by Women

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Frances Hodgson Burnett; Sandra M. Gilbert

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Wrongful Death: a Memoir

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Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing

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Norton Anthology of Literature by Women

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Norton Anthology of Literature by Women

Sandra M. Gilbert

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Norton Anthology of Literature by Women

Sandra M. Gilbert; Ruth Reichl

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