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If you loved Improper Modernism Djuna Barnes’s Bewildering Corpus by Daniela Caselli, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Semiotics & Theory, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women Authors, and Literary Criticism.

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The Gaze of the Caged Woman Sexuality and Performance in Selected Beckett Plays — Ila Ahlawat

The Gaze of the Caged Woman Sexuality and Performance in Selected Beckett Plays

Themes: Semiotics & Theory • Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors

Simone de Beauvoir — Ursula Tidd

Simone de Beauvoir

Themes: Semiotics & Theory • Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors

Desire and Domestic Fiction A Political History of the Novel — Nancy Armstrong

Desire and Domestic Fiction A Political History of the Novel

Nancy Armstrong

Themes: Semiotics & Theory • Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors

Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature — Silvia Schultermandl

Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature

Silvia Schultermandl

Themes: Semiotics & Theory • Feminism & Feminist Theory • Literary Criticism

Women and the Gothic An Edinburgh Companion — Avril Horner

Women and the Gothic An Edinburgh Companion

Themes: Semiotics & Theory • Feminism & Feminist Theory • Literary Criticism

Writing the Self, Writing the Nation Romantic Selfhood in the Works of Germaine de Staël and Claire de Duras — Stacie Allan

Writing the Self, Writing the Nation Romantic Selfhood in the Works of Germaine de Staël and Claire de Duras

Themes: Semiotics & Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Riding Like the Wind The Life of Sanora Babb — Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Riding Like the Wind The Life of Sanora Babb

Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Themes: Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Lives of the Wives Five Literary Marriages — Carmela Ciuraru

Lives of the Wives Five Literary Marriages

Carmela Ciuraru

Themes: Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Garments Against Women — Anne Boyer

Garments Against Women

Themes: Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Beat Feminisms Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism — Polina Mackay

Beat Feminisms Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism

Themes: Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Conversations with Grace Paley — Gerhard Bach

Conversations with Grace Paley

Themes: Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Daughters of Decadence Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle — Elaine Showalter

Daughters of Decadence Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle

Elaine Showalter

Themes: Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Loving Sylvia Plath A Reclamation — Emily Van Duyne

Loving Sylvia Plath A Reclamation

Emily Van Duyne

Themes: Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination — Elizabeth Christine Russ

The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination

Elizabeth Christine Russ

Themes: Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991) An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary — Philip C. Kolin

Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991) An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary

Philip C. Kolin

Themes: Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

From Subjection to Survival The Artistry of American Women Writers — Molly J. Freitas

From Subjection to Survival The Artistry of American Women Writers

Molly J. Freitas

Themes: Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

The Shame of Losing — Sarah Cannon

The Shame of Losing

Themes: Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Communal Feminisms Chicanas, Chilenas, and Cultural Exile — Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs

Communal Feminisms Chicanas, Chilenas, and Cultural Exile

Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs

Themes: Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Engaging Italy American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks — Etta M. Madden

Engaging Italy American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks

Themes: Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

A Room of One’s Own — Virginia Woolf

A Room of One’s Own

Themes: Feminism & Feminist Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

World War I & Southern Modernism — David Alexander Davis

World War I & Southern Modernism

David Alexander Davis

Themes: Semiotics & Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

H.D. and Sapphic Modernism 1910-1950 — Diana Collecott

H.D. and Sapphic Modernism 1910-1950

Diana Collecott

Themes: Semiotics & Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Reading Madeleine L’Engle Ecopsychology in Children’s and Adolescent Literature — Heidi A. Lawrence

Reading Madeleine L’Engle Ecopsychology in Children’s and Adolescent Literature

Heidi A. Lawrence

Themes: Semiotics & Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

Journeys and Journals Women’s Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora — Carol Allen

Journeys and Journals Women’s Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora

Themes: Semiotics & Theory • Women Authors • Literary Criticism

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Semiotics & Theory, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women Authors — the same threads that run through Improper Modernism Djuna Barnes’s Bewildering Corpus by Daniela Caselli. Among the authors featured: Ila Ahlawat, Ursula Tidd, Nancy Armstrong, Silvia Schultermandl, and others.

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