Ebook: Herspace: women, writing, and solitude

This collection delves deeply into the power of solitude in a richly detailed exploration of the lives of women writers! The essays in this fascinating volume combine literary theory, autobiography, performance, and criticism, while opening minds and expanding concepts of women's roles both in the home and within academia along the way. Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude begins with a discussion of the importance of solitude to the works of a variety of writers, including Margaret Atwood, May Sarton, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, and Zora Neale Hurston, and then moves on to an.;Section 1. Women theorizing herspace -- solitude and writing -- section 2. Women's writing spaces -- solitude and the creative process -- section 3. Women writing herspace -- personal takes on home.