"A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is edited with notes by Tim Dolin and an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet in "Penguin Classics". When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very ..."
"Contending that the anti-feminist backlash in the academy is part of the broader politically correct rhetoric, the authors have gathered together a collection of writers, academics and activists to challenge the rising tide of insults, insinuation and spoken violence in academia. With the classroom's climate increasingly chilly for women, this study is a response to the assault on feminist thinkers, critics and academics. Offering a spi ..."
"This critical edition of Thomas Hardy's 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the d'Urbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliogr ..."
"measure changes brought about by war, and to study reactions to the social,
sexual and ideological revolutions in all ... in approach to "the surfacing of sexual
desire as expressed in the new eroticism of wartime postcards, newspapers,
revues". ... An important area of the terra incognita is the field I propose to
investigate: the representation of women in theatrical ... This goes to the heart of
recent enquiry about the French h ..."
"Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet bring together twenty-two scholars to look closely at the complexities of children's culture. Girls, Boys, Books, Toys asks questions about how the gender symbolism of children's culture is constructed and resisted. What happens when women rewrite (or illustrate) nursery rhymes, adventure stories, and fairy tales told by men? How do the socially scripted plots for boys and girls change throug ..."
"What effect did the two world wars have on the relations between women and men? Drawing on broad comparative material-from government policy to popular media, poetry and fiction, and personal letters-this book examines the redefinition of gender that occurred in many Western countries during both world wars. "A major addition to the literature on gender relations and war."-Helena Lewis, Women's Review of Books "One of the first, and c ..."
"New York: Monthly Review, 1983. ... 1 (2007): 3-24. Las Casas, Bartolomé de.
History of the Indies. Trans. Andree Collard. New York: Harper and Row, ... Paris:
Seuil, 1985. Menache, Sophia. "Dogs: God's Worst Enemies?" Society and
Animals 5.1 (1997): 23-44. Millan, Cesar, with Melissa Jo Peltier. Cesar's Way:
The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog
Problems."
"'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire' Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness. Early readers responded to Hardy's 'insatiably observant' descriptions of t ..."
Borderwork Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature (Reading Women Writing) by Margaret R. Higonnet Paperback, 354 Pages, Published 2018 by Cornell University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-2794-8, ISBN: 1-5017-2794-X
"The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline and calls for the contextualization of the study of comparative ..."
Nurses at the Front(1st Edition) Writing the Wounds of the Great War by Margaret R. Higonnet, Mary Borden Paperback, 161 Pages, Published 2001 by Northeastern ISBN-13: 978-1-55553-484-4, ISBN: 1-55553-484-8
"Writing the Wounds of the Great War Margaret R. Higonnet. Introduction. G'Q.
Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) and Mary Borden (1886–1968) TwAs THE
waR that had taken me to France," recollected the novelist and poet Mary Borden
." At the very moment when advancing armies were driving refugee women and
children away from their homes in the battle zones of Belgium and Poland, the
Great War was drawing other women toward the line of f ..."
"In war, the voices of women often go unheard. When they are heard, they tend to be stereotypical, affectedly feminine: women as survivors, mourners, and sufferers. Literary scholar Margaret R. Higonnet decries this short-shrifting of women's contributions to war history, challenging the assumption that because women are excluded from combat (and even that assumption turns out to be false), their stories are necessarily secondary, inauth ..."
"This collection of essays looks at the literary representations of space - physical, psychological political and cultural - from a perspective that is at once comparative and feminist. Combining historical analysis with literary theory, the contributors explore the changing definitions of "woman's place" through such themes as exile and exclusion, property and territoriality, and the body as interface between individual and communal ide ..."
Borderwork(1st Edition) Feminist Engagements With Comparative Literature (Reading Women Writing) by Professor Margaret R. Higonnet, Cornell University Press Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 1994 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-2869-2, ISBN: 0-8014-2869-6
"The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline."
Behind the Lines(1st Edition) Gender and the Two World Wars by Margaret R. Higonnet Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1987 by Yale University ISBN-13: 978-0-300-03687-9, ISBN: 0-300-03687-6
"Yale University Press, 1987. Hardcover. ISBN 0300036876."
"Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet bring together twenty-two scholars to look closely at the complexities of children's culture. Girls, Boys, Books, Toys asks questions about how the gender symbolism of children's culture is constructed and resisted. What happens when women rewrite (or illustrate) nursery rhymes, adventure stories, and fairy tales told by men? How do the socially scripted plots for boys and girls change through ..."