Author : Qingyun Wu
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815626237
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (262 download)
Book Synopsis Female Rule in Chinese and English Literary Utopias by : Qingyun Wu
Download or read book Female Rule in Chinese and English Literary Utopias written by Qingyun Wu and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works examined include Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen, Luo Maodeng's Sanbao's Expedition to the Western Ocean, Florence Dixie's Gloriana, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed, Chen Duansheng's The Destiny of the Next Life, Li Ruzhen's The Flowers in the Mirror, and Bai Hua's The Remote Country of Women. This critical view of the development of feminist utopias in both the East and West will be of interest to scholars of women's studies, political science, and anthropology as well as to those in literature for both the classical and modern periods.