You can start with women authors such as Emily Dickinson and the like and how they weren't very numerous...and then do something about current best-sellers and how they're mostly women. Or do you want to do something on the evolution of the genres of female authors?
Yep, it is for a class. I am writing a paper for a class on how women writers have evolved.
There has been a huge change in accepting women writers and that hasnt always been the case, women in the past generally used an alias with a mans name to publish their books.
That is kind of the jist, but I need 3 pages of something.LOL!
Well my first thought is to consider the development between George Eliot and the Brontes. Definitely a lot of similarities but the evolution of the novel as a genre is played out too in the contrast between them and their eras.
For George Eliot I especially love Silas Marner but that's my personal favourite of hers.
Oh and there's also Elizabeth Gaskell for comparison.
Do you have to read the novels these characters are in? ?Are you comparing and contrasting the characters in terms of the feminist movement??
I'd look @ Kate Chopin's The Awakening (her main character Edna is a sort of precursor to modern feminists), and then compare her to a more recent female heroine in literature (drawing a blank right now)?
I'd look @ Kate Chopin's The Awakening (her main character Edna is a sort of precursor to modern feminists), and then compare her to a more recent female heroine in literature (drawing a blank right now)
A total aside, but I loved that novel. It's still one of my favorites.
Re: Any English buffs? I need to write on Women's Literature
Damn, I was going to suggest googling, "evolution of women's lit!"
Let me get some more wine, then maybe I can help!?
What's this for? A class?
You can start with women authors such as Emily Dickinson and the like and how they weren't very numerous...and then do something about current best-sellers and how they're mostly women. Or do you want to do something on the evolution of the genres of female authors?
Call me if you need/want more help.
Yep, it is for a class. I am writing a paper for a class on how women writers have evolved.
There has been a huge change in accepting women writers and that hasnt always been the case, women in the past generally used an alias with a mans name to publish their books.
That is kind of the jist, but I need 3 pages of something.LOL!
Well my first thought is to consider the development between George Eliot and the Brontes. Definitely a lot of similarities but the evolution of the novel as a genre is played out too in the contrast between them and their eras.
For George Eliot I especially love Silas Marner but that's my personal favourite of hers.
Oh and there's also Elizabeth Gaskell for comparison.
Do you have to read the novels these characters are in? ?Are you comparing and contrasting the characters in terms of the feminist movement??
I'd look @ Kate Chopin's The Awakening (her main character Edna is a sort of precursor to modern feminists), and then compare her to a more recent female heroine in literature (drawing a blank right now)?
A total aside, but I loved that novel. It's still one of my favorites.