Jane Marcus
Encyclopedia
Jane Marcus is a Distinguished English professor at the City University of New York
and the City College of New York. She is a notable feminist critic, focusing mainly on modernist texts, particularly the works of Virginia Woolf
. She taught at the University of Texas and helped found women's studies programs at the University of Illinois at Chicago
and the University of Texas.
She is the mother of novelist Ben Marcus
and portrayed in his book Notable American Women
.
City University of New York
The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E...
and the City College of New York. She is a notable feminist critic, focusing mainly on modernist texts, particularly the works of Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century....
. She taught at the University of Texas and helped found women's studies programs at the University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop...
and the University of Texas.
She is the mother of novelist Ben Marcus
Ben Marcus
Ben Marcus is the author of three books of fiction, Notable American Women, The Father Costume, and The Age of Wire and String. His new novel, The Flame Alphabet, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in January of 2012...
and portrayed in his book Notable American Women
Notable American Women
Notable American Women is a novel, written by author Ben Marcus and published in March 2002.-Plot introduction:The novel, written as a follow-up to Marcus's literary debut, The Age of Wire and String, deals with an abstruse Ohio family, which shares the author's surname...
.
Works
- Virginia Woolf and the languages of patriarchy
- Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Slant (editor)
- Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman
- The Young Rebecca WestRebecca WestCicely Isabel Fairfield , known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public...
- Britannia Rules The Waves
- A Key to a Room of One's Own
- White Looks: Modernism, Primitivism and Nancy CunardNancy CunardNancy Clara Cunard was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class but strongly rejected her family's values, devoting much of her life to fighting racism and fascism...
- Hearts of Darkness: White Women Write Race