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Susan Kress
Uncovering clues buried in Heilbrun’s work, Kress offers startling insights into Heilbrun’s suicide, revealing an even more complex, more poignant portrait of Carolyn Heilbrun.
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Julia B Boken
Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.
Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Heilbrun looks at the biographies and memoirs of women who have altered the face of literature and the world, and reveals the ways in which feminism has changed our perceptions…
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From one of America’s most respected critics comes an acclaimed biography of the controversial feminist. Here, Heilbrun illuminates the life and explores the many facets of Steinem’s complex life, from…
A study of the influences of Clifton Fadiman, Lionel Trilling, and Jacques Barzun on Heilbrun’s own literary development, but the book is far broader than that-really, a history of Columbia…
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The feminist writer and author of the Amanda Cross mystery series looks back on a youthful pledge to commit suicide at seventy, explaining why, given that her sixties have been…
In this quietly provocative book, Carolyn G. Heilbrun opens our eyes to the ways in which the concept of androgyny-the realization of man in woman and woman in man-has run…
Carolyn Heilbrun’s important investigation into issues of identity for twentieth-century American women: the problem with past role models, ways to construct new ones.
Now in a new paperback edition with a new preface by the author, this collection explores feminism within the profession of literature.
Wilkie Collins
The moonstone is a yellow diamond of unearthly beauty brought from India and given to Rachel Verrinder as an eighteenth birthday present, but the fabled diamond carries with it a…
A provocative study that should be in every writer’s library. -Washington Post
Representing a wide range of fields, the contributors to this work give special emphasis to daughter-father relationships in British and American literature.
