Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780815626206)

This collection speaks to common themes and strategies in women's writing about their different worlds, from Margaret Cavendish's seventeenth-century Blazing World of the North Pole to the "men-less" islands of the French writer Scudery to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century utopias of Shelley and Gaskell, and science fiction pulps, finishing with the more contemporary feminist fictions of Le Guin, Wittig, Piercy, and Michison. It shows that these fictions historically speak to each other and together amount to a literary tradition of women's writing about a better place.

Author: Jane L. Donawerth
ISBN-10: 0815626207
ISBN-13: 9780815626206
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/1994
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.02w x 0.75d