"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 ..."
Nurses at the Front(1stEdition) 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 ..."
Borderwork(1stEdition) 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(1stEdition) 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."
"These innovative essays take a comparative approach to queer studies while simultaneously queering the field of comparative literature, strengthening the interdisciplinary of both. The book focuses not only on comparative praxis, but also on interrogating our assumptions and categories of analysis."
The Sense of Sex(1stEdition) Feminist Perspectives on Hardy by Margaret R. Higonnet, Shapiai Mohd. Ramly Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-06260-5, ISBN: 0-252-06260-4
"The sexual possession of Sue marks a crux in the novel and in Jude's self-
construction. It permits him to define his male "nature" as one given to sensual
indulgence—wine, women, and blasphemy. But he also aspires to a value
outside a ..."
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