About the Book: The Representation of Women in English Literature
Representation of women in English literature, as a subject, has a multiple
shade because such a topic involves not only the politics of women empowerment
and subjugation but also the politics of literary representation itself. Beside
this, the topic has an astonishingly wide range considering the wide spectrum of
English literature. The present volume engages a number of renowned and aspiring
scholars to explore the various modes of representation of women in English
.literature, with special emphasis on the key literary figures and texts such as
Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf. Never pretending to be exhaustive and
conclusive,