Beschreibung
Thirteen scholars from ten different national backgrounds offer their diverse commentaries on misogynism in literature. The diversity is intentional as it shows how much misogyny has been able to permeate centuries and literatures, but it also shows that those trying to resist it are just as cosmopolitan. The collection discloses the negative sameness of different peoples and cultures in their misogyny found in such celebrated authors as Boccaccio, Byron, Chaucer, Gallegos, Gide, D.H. Lawrence, Melville, Mungan, Pushkin, Salih, Shakespeare, and Swift.
Autorenportrait
The Editor: Britta Zangen worked as a fashion designer, a teacher of English, and as chief librarian before returning to education as a mature student. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Düsseldorf where she then worked as a lecturer for years. She is now an independent scholar. She has published widely on feminist issues. A full-length study on marriageable young women in the novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy is forthcoming.
