Elaine Showalter, English Showalter

Gebundenes Buch

Between Friends

Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

Beschreibung

The fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby, written from 1920 to 1935, tell the story of an extraordinary friendship that created a model for a new kind of independent woman, after the First World War.

Autor

Elaine Showalter is Professor Emerita of English and Avalon Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, where she taught 19th and 20th century British and American literature. She is the author of A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing, and many other books on women writers, and has also written about literature, art, and popular culture for newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and U.K. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. English Showalter is a professor emeritus of French literature at Rutgers University. He was an editor of the 15-volume Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny, published by the Voltaire Foundation at Oxford, and he still enjoys deciphering manuscript letters. He has also written a biography of Madame de Graffigny and books on the eighteenth-century French novel and on Camus. They live in Washington DC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 163mm x 243mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 772g
• ISBN-13: 9780349012292
• ISBN-10: 0349012296
• Artikelnr.: 60590781