Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women's Literature.

1998 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 271
Author(s):  
Reiko Abe Auestad ◽  
Joan E. Ericson
1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Sharalyn Orbaugh ◽  
Joan E. Ericson

Author(s):  
Charlotte Lennox ◽  
Margaret Anne Doody

The Female Quixote (1752), a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays the beautiful and aristocratic Arabella, whose passion for reading romances leads her into all manner of misunderstandings. Praised by Fielding, Richardson and Samuel Johnson, the book quickly established Charlotte Lennox as a foremost writer of the Novel of Sentiment. With an excellent introduction and full explanatory notes, this edition will be of particular interest to students of women's literature, and of the eighteenth-century novel.


This article gives an overview of writing by women in a revolutionary phase during the twentieth century and highlights the distinguished features of twentieth century women's literature including the diverse range of themes, change in women's social and family roles, a remarkable shift in subjects of writing which added a new frontier in women's writing. While contemplating the study of twentieth century women's literature, the most significant features that came under the spotlight include discovery of women's self- identity, women coming out from the male defined precincts to achieve independence and the authors' expedition towards autonomy and self-assertion through their writing. However, to trace the growth twentieth century women's literature has witnessed, a comparative investigation of Victorian and twentieth century women's literature has been stated briefly.


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