Eve Bites Back : An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer ...

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Eve Bites BackAn Alternative History of English Literature\nAuthor(s): Anna Beer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oneworld Publications, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oneworld Publications\nISBN-13: 9780861542932, 978-0861542932\nSynopsis\nMargery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen.\n\nWarned not to write and certainly not to bite these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history.\n\nSmart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force. [url] Kennedy\n\nEver since Sappho first put stylus to papyrus, women who write have been labelled mad, undisciplined and dangerous. Funny and provocative, Eve Bites Back offers an alternative history of English literature. Placing the female contemporaries of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton centre stage, Anna Beer builds a vibrant new canon through Restoration wits, scandalous sensation novelists and medieval mystics.\n\nDelving into the lives and work of eight pioneers Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Aemilia La.