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Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World by Gordon
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- “Used book in good condition. Shows typical wear. Quick shipping. Satisfaction guaranteed!”
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
1421429446
ISBN-13
9781421429441
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038641763
Product Key Features
Book Title
Outsiders : Five Women Writers Who Changed the World
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Women, Women Authors, Literary, Europe / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-955300
Reviews
Literary biographer Gordon ( Lives Like Loaded Guns ) brilliantly ties together the biographies of five women writers who bravely embraced outsider status . . . By addressing an almost inconceivably wide range of themes through the book's conceit--health, mores, politics, pregnancy, economics, sex, sexism, secrets, and silence--Gordon seduces readers interested in all that these fascinating women had to offer., Gordon maintains [a] level of engagement throughout . . . The result is a fascinating study that fully supports the author's thesis. Highly recommended for both academic and general readers interested in women's literature and history. -- Library Journal, starred review, Gordon's voice is most lyrical and assured in her conclusions . . . Gordon narrates their deaths in understated yet powerful detail, stirring some of her most striking observations. -- The New York Times Book Review, Literary biographer Gordon ( Lives Like Loaded Guns ) brilliantly ties together the biographies of five women writers who bravely embraced outsider status... By addressing an almost inconceivably wide range of themes through the book's conceit--health, mores, politics, pregnancy, economics, sex, sexism, secrets, and silence--Gordon seduces readers interested in all that these fascinating women had to offer., Gordon's voice is most lyrical and assured in her conclusions . . . Gordon narrates their deaths in understated yet powerful detail, stirring some of her most striking observations., Gordon's voice is most lyrical and assured in her conclusions... Gordon narrates their deaths in understated yet powerful detail, stirring some of her most striking observations., ""There is much to instruct and delight in the delineation of the ways in which the lives of these unusual women are reflected in their work."", There is much to instruct and delight in the delineation of the ways in which the lives of these unusual women are reflected in their work., Gordon maintains [a] level of engagement throughout... The result is a fascinating study that fully supports the author's thesis. Highly recommended for both academic and general readers interested in women's literature and history., Woolf once said that the role of biography is to give us 'the fertile fact' of a life, and this is what Ms. Gordon, an Oxford academic and biographer, is so good at supplying here. All five of these women believed that their status as outsiders--pariahs, even--was worth the creative freedom it gave them., Gordon maintains [a] level of engagement throughout . . . The result is a fascinating study that fully supports the author's thesis. Highly recommended for both academic and general readers interested in women's literature and history., There is much to instruct and delight in the delineation of the ways in which the lives of these unusual women are reflected in their work. --Jane Hailé, New York Journal of Books, Literary biographer Gordon ( Lives Like Loaded Guns ) brilliantly ties together the biographies of five women writers who bravely embraced outsider status . . . By addressing an almost inconceivably wide range of themes through the book's conceit--health, mores, politics, pregnancy, economics, sex, sexism, secrets, and silence--Gordon seduces readers interested in all that these fascinating women had to offer. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review, Woolf once said that the role of biography is to give us 'the fertile fact' of a life, and this is what Ms. Gordon, an Oxford academic and biographer, is so good at supplying here. All five of these women believed that their status as outsiders--pariahs, even--was worth the creative freedom it gave them. -- The Wall Street Journal
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
820.99287
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Foreword 1. Prodigy--Mary Shelley 2. Visionary--Emily Brontë 3. ""Outlaw""--George Eliot 4. Orator--Olive Schreiner 5. Explorer--Virginia Woolf The Outsiders Society Sources Further Reading Acknowledgments Index
Synopsis
Prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw, ' orator and explorer. As society's outsiders, the exceptional subjects of this study inspired a new breed of women--and one another. Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Literature by the Association of American Publishers Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders , award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contemporaries, prophetically imagining a different future. We have long known the individual greatness of each of these writers, but in linking their creativity to their lives as outcasts, Gordon throws new light on the genius they share. All five lost their mothers in childbirth or at a young age. With no female role model present, they learned from books--and sometimes from an enlightened mentor. Crucially, each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of her own. The passion in their own lives infused their fiction. Writing with passionate intelligence of her own, Gordon reveals that these renegade writers inspired a new breed of women who wished to change a world locked in war, violence, exploitation, and sexual abuse. Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised. In Outsiders , she crafts nuanced portraits of Shelley, Brontë, Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf, naming each of these writers as prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw, ' orator, and explorer, and shows how they came, they saw, and they left us changed. Today, following the tsunami of women's protest at widespread abuse, we do more than read them; we listen and live with their astonishing bravery and eloquence., Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders , award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contemporaries, prophetically imagining a different future. We have long known the individual greatness of each of these writers, but in linking their creativity to their lives as outcasts, Gordon throws new light on the genius they share. All five lost their mothers in childbirth or at a young age. With no female role model present, they learned from books--and sometimes from an enlightened mentor. Crucially, each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of her own. The passion in their own lives infused their fiction. Writing with passionate intelligence of her own, Gordon reveals that these renegade writers inspired a new breed of women who wished to change a world locked in war, violence, exploitation, and sexual abuse. Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised. In Outsiders , she crafts nuanced portraits of Shelley, Brontë, Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf, naming each of these writers as prodigy, visionary, ""outlaw,"" orator, and explorer, and shows how they came, they saw, and they left us changed. Today, following the tsunami of women's protest at widespread abuse, we do more than read them; we listen and live with their astonishing bravery and eloquence., Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders , award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women ......, Prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw,' orator and explorer. As society's outsiders, the exceptional subjects of this study inspired a new breed of women--and one another. Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Literature by the Association of American Publishers Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders , award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contemporaries, prophetically imagining a different future. We have long known the individual greatness of each of these writers, but in linking their creativity to their lives as outcasts, Gordon throws new light on the genius they share. All five lost their mothers in childbirth or at a young age. With no female role model present, they learned from books--and sometimes from an enlightened mentor. Crucially, each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of her own. The passion in their own lives infused their fiction. Writing with passionate intelligence of her own, Gordon reveals that these renegade writers inspired a new breed of women who wished to change a world locked in war, violence, exploitation, and sexual abuse. Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised. In Outsiders , she crafts nuanced portraits of Shelley, Brontë, Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf, naming each of these writers as prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw,' orator, and explorer, and shows how they came, they saw, and they left us changed. Today, following the tsunami of women's protest at widespread abuse, we do more than read them; we listen and live with their astonishing bravery and eloquence., Mary Shelley, Emily Bront , George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders , award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contemporaries, prophetically imagining a different future. We have long known the individual greatness of each of these writers, but in linking their creativity to their lives as outcasts, Gordon throws new light on the genius they share. All five lost their mothers in childbirth or at a young age. With no female role model present, they learned from books--and sometimes from an enlightened mentor. Crucially, each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of her own. The passion in their own lives infused their fiction. Writing with passionate intelligence of her own, Gordon reveals that these renegade writers inspired a new breed of women who wished to change a world locked in war, violence, exploitation, and sexual abuse. Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised. In Outsiders , she crafts nuanced portraits of Shelley, Bront , Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf, naming each of these writers as prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw, ' orator, and explorer, and shows how they came, they saw, and they left us changed. Today, following the tsunami of women's protest at widespread abuse, we do more than read them; we listen and live with their astonishing bravery and eloquence.
LC Classification Number
PR115.G66 2019
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