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The Wicked Sisters

Erkkila, Betsy

1992,1994

Overview

This provocative study of the lives and works of Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, and Gwendolyn Brooks focuses on the historical struggles and differences among and within women writers and among feminists themselves. Erkkila explores the troubled relations of women writers with both the masculine and feminine literary culture, arguing that popular feminist views romanticize and maternalize women writers. Offering a revisionary model of women’s literary history, Erkkila focuses on the historical struggles and conflicts that make up the history of women poets. Without discounting the historical power of sisterhood, she seeks to reclaim women’s literary history as a site of contention, contingency, and ongoing struggle, rather than a separate space of untroubled and essentially co-operative accord among women.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press,Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Subject: American literature in English / American poetry / American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc / English poetry / English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc / English-speaking countries / Feminism and literature / Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries / Feminist poetry, American / Feminist poetry, American -- History and criticism / Feminist poetry, English / Feminist poetry, English -- History and criticism / History and criticism / Literature / Theory, etc / True crime / Women and literature / Women and literature -- English-speaking countries / Women authors
• ISBN: 0195344952, 9780195344950, 0195072111, 019507212X, 9780195072129, 9780195072112