Behind a Mask: Women’s Writing and Women’s Loves

Synopsis: Uses evidence from the lives and literature of six women writers - Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker - and the commonality and differences within the female literary tradition to draw out common themes: domestic influence and public desires; the notion of madness as closely aligned to creativity; isolation and suicide; the struggle of the woman writer to find the space, both physical and pssychological, in which to write and get her work recognised.
Series: Approaching Literature, Course A210
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Year of production: 1996
Subjects: English language and literature
Keywords: Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); gender representation; Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Walker, Alice; Woolf, Virginia; writers - women writers; Alcott, Louisa May; Gillman, Charlotte Perkins

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