Beschreibung:
Romancing the epic : Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and literary traditions / Sheila Cavanagh -- Female heroic action in Frances Burney's Camilla / Elizabeth Kraft -- Virginia Woolf and the modern epic / Karla Alwes -- Epic form and (re)vision in Rebecca West's Black lamb and Grey falcon / Bernard Schweizer -- Gendering Telemachus : Anna Seward and the epic rewriting of Fènelon's Tèlèmaque / Adeline Johns-Putra -- The female epic and the journey towards self-definition in Mary Tighe's Psyche / Debnita Chakravarti -- Hear the voice of the (female) bard : Aurora Leigh as a female romantic epic / Peggy Dunn Bailey -- The daughters of Penelope : tradition and innovation in American epics by women / Alan Jalowitz -- Revisionary heroism in Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen / Jenny Goodman -- Against the fathers' amnesia : Sharon Doubiago, Hard country, and women's epic / Jeremy Downes.