The essays collected in this volume include a selection of those presented at a conference in the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, in 2002. They highlight the existence of a European network of women's writing which became a valuable source of consciousness-raising, not only for European women writers, but also for their readers. The main theme running through the essays is love: women loving against the odds and transcending all kinds of obstacles. Does love speak a common language or is it inevitably linked to social mores and individual experience? Does desire work in the same way? Do love and desire have the power to subvert dichotomous thinking and motivate real change? The texts studied in this volume are both fictional and factual, from plays and novels to diaries, letters and drama performances. The countries the essays travel through, and the languages they encounter, all contribute to forming a magic web of connections, solidarities and ideas that truly cross boundaries.
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Love and Be Damned: New Perspectives in Seventeenth-Century Literature by Women
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Barely Saved from Drowning: The Max Emst - Leonora Carrington Affair
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'Fighting & Tired but Yours for Ever': Katherine Mansfield' s Love-Letters, 1918
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'I love you is always a quotation': Vita Sackville-West, Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf's Intertextual Rapport
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Transcending Boundaries: National Identity and Sexual Transgression in Hungarian and English Modemism
págs. 87-104
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Loving the Enemy: History and Autobiography in Charlotte Brontë's Effort to Reconcile Wellington and Napoleon
págs. 115-124
Living and (Re)Writing Against the Odds:: Embroidering the Brontës into the Hungarian Postmodem
págs. 125-140
Romancing Female Identity: The Influence of Jane Eyre on Portuguese Women's Novels
págs. 141-152
An Inner Landscape of Obsessions: Jane Urquhart's The Whirpool, Changing Heaven and The Underpainter
págs. 153-162
'Women Who Did': Female Playwrights at the Turn of the Century
págs. 163-180
'Putting on the Destined Livery': Actresses Play Isabella
págs. 181-194
From Independence to Fascism: British Women Writers Depicting Italy in the Interwar Period
págs. 195-206
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