A History of Central European Women's Writing

Download or read book A History of Central European Women's Writing written by C. Hawkesworth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-04-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Central European Women's Writing offers a unique survey of literature from the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia. It introduces a little known area of European literature from a unique point of view, illustrating the development of women's writing in the region from the middle ages to the present day. If offers a broad historical survey, placing individual writers in their social and political context and showing how processes shaping their lives are reflected in their works.