Women and literature
'Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose and Letters'
Music critic Lloyd Schwartz first met poet Elizabeth Bishop when she moved to Cambridge in the early 1970s after living in Brazil for nearly 20 years. Now Schwartz has co-edited a new collection of work by the former U.S. Poet Laureate.
How A 'Madwoman' Upended A Literary Boys Club.
The National Book Critics Circle has announced that two feminist literary scholars, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, will receive a lifetime achievement award. Critic Maureen Corrigan says their groundbreaking 1979 book, The Madwoman in the Attic, changed the way we read.
'Her Peers': A Gutsy Anthology Of Women Writers
Elaine Showalter's A Jury Of Her Peers offers a literary history of American women writers spanning from the tales of Puritan Anne Bradstreet to the modern-day gay cowboy stories of Annie Proulx. Maureen Corrigan has a review.
The Death of Romance as a Literary Metaphor.
Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The End of the Novel of Love" (Beacon Press) by Vivian Gornick.