Josephine Donovan

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Josephine Campbell Donovan (born March 10, 1941 in Manila ) is an American author and emeritus literary scholar. She specialized in animal ethics , feminist critical theory , literary studies by American women writers with an emphasis on 19th century and early modern women's literature. Her work has been translated into Japanese, French, Turkish, Swedish and Chinese.

Josephine Donovan was evacuated as a child shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 1941) with her mother from a US base in the Philippines. Her father stayed behind and was captured by the Japanese army as a captain in the US Army. In 1998 Josephine published his memoirs about his time as a prisoner of war.

Donovan graduated from Bryn Mawr College with honors in 1962 in history. She then worked as a reporter for a small newspaper and as a copyist for the Washington Post . In addition, she attended a writing course at Columbia University . She received her Masters and PhD in comparative literature in 1967 and 1971 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . She was then employed many times as an academic and worked as an editor for GK Hall in Boston. She recently retired from her position as Professor of English at the University of Maine, Orono, in order to devote more time to her writing activities. She currently (2011) lives on the New England coast .

Works

Books

As an author
  • Sarah Orne Jewett . Cybereditions, 2002, ISBN 1-877275-35-2 .
  • Feminist theory: The intellectual traditions . Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000, ISBN 0-8264-1248-3 .
  • Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 . St. Martin's Press, 2000, ISBN 0-312-23097-4 .
  • Uncle Tom's cabin: evil, affliction, and redemptive love . Twayne, 1991, ISBN 0-8057-8095-5 .
  • Gnosticism in modern literature: a study of the selected works of Camus, Sartre, Hesse, and Kafka . Garland, 1990, ISBN 0-8240-0007-2 .
  • Feminist literary criticism: explorations in theory . University Press of Kentucky, 1989, ISBN 0-8131-0190-5 .
  • New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition . F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1983, ISBN 0-8044-2138-2 .
As editor
  • Josephine Donovan (Ed.): The feminist care tradition in animal ethics: a reader . Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-231-14039-3 (with Carol J. Adams).
  • William Nelson Donovan (Ed.): POW in the Pacific: memoirs of an American doctor in World War II . Scholarly Resources Inc, 1998, ISBN 0-8420-2725-4 (with Josephine Donovan, Ann Devigne Donovan).
  • Josephine Donovan (Ed.): Beyond animal rights: A feminist caring ethic for the treatment of animals . Continuum International Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 0-8264-0836-2 (with Carol J Adams).
  • Carol J. Adams (Ed.): Animals and women: Feminist theoretical explorations . Duke University Press Books, 1995, ISBN 0-8223-1667-6 (with Josephine Donovan).
  • Josephine Donovan (Ed.): Feminist literary criticism: explorations in theory . Univ Pr of Kentucky, 1989, ISBN 0-8131-0190-5 (with Barbara A. White, Carolyn Heilbrun, Catharine Stimpson, Barbara Currier Bell, Carol Ohmann, Marcia Holly, Dorin Schumacher, Cheri Register).

items

  • The silence is broken . In: Deborah Cameron (Ed.): The Feminist Critique of Language: A Reader . Routledge, 1990, ISBN 0-415-04260-7 , pp. 41 ( books.google.com ).
  • Josephine Donovan: Beyond the Net: Feminist Criticism as a Moral Criticism . In: Denver Quarterly . 17, 1983, pp. 40-57.
  • Josephine Donovan: The pattern of birds and beasts: Willa Cather and women's art . In: Writing the Woman Artist, ed. Suzanne Jones. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press . 1991.
  • Josephine Donovan: Tolstoy's Animals . In: Society and Animals . 17, No. 1, March 10, 2008, ISSN  1063-1119 , pp. 38-52. doi : 10.1163 / 156853009X393756 .
  • Josephine Donovan: Style and Power . In: Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic . August, pp. 85-94.
  • Josephine Donovan: Sexual Politics in Sylvia Plath's Short Stories . In: Minnesota Review . 4, August, pp. 150-157.
  • Josephine Donovan: Feminism and Aesthetics . In: Critical Inquiry . 3, No. 3, April 1, 1977, ISSN  0093-1896 , pp. 605-608.
  • Josephine Donovan: The Unpublished Love Poems of Sarah Orne Jewett . In: Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies . 4, No. 3, October 1, 1979, ISSN  0160-9009 , pp. 26-31. doi : 10.2307 / 3346145 .
  • Josephine Donovan: A Woman's Vision of Transcendence: A New Interpretation of the Works of Sarah Orne Jewett . In: The Massachusetts Review . 21, No. 2, July 1, 1980, ISSN  0025-4878 , pp. 365-380.
  • Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective . Indiana University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-253-11488-8 , Everyday Use and Moments of Being, pp. 53-66 ( books.google.com ).
  • Josephine Donovan: Toward a Women's Poetics . In: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature . 3, No. 1/2, April 1, 1984, ISSN  0732-7730 , pp. 99-110. doi : 10.2307 / 463827 .
  • Josephine Donovan: Sarah Orne Jewett's Critical Theory: Notes toward a Feminine Literary Mode . In: The Sarah Orne Jewett Journal . 1984.
  • Josephine Donovan: Animal rights and feminist theory . In: Signs . 15, No. 2, 1990, pp. 350-375.
  • Josephine Donovan: Reply to Noddings . In: Signs . 16, No. 2, January 1, 1991, ISSN  0097-9740 , pp. 423-425.
  • Josephine Donovan: Women and the Rise of the Novel: A Feminist-Marxist Theory . In: Signs . 16, No. 3, April 1, 1991, ISSN  0097-9740 , pp. 441-462.
  • Josephine Donovan: Jewett and Swedenborg . In: American Literature . 65, No. 4, December 1, 1993, ISSN  0002-9831 , pp. 731-750. doi : 10.2307 / 2927290 .
  • Josephine Donovan: Comment on George's “Should Feminists Be Vegetarians?” . In: Signs . 21, No. 1, October 1, 1995, ISSN  0097-9740 , pp. 226-229.
  • Josephine Donovan: A Source for Stowe's Ideas on Race in “Uncle Tom's Cabin” . In: NWSA Journal . 7, No. 3, October 1, 1995, ISSN  1040-0656 , pp. 24-34.
  • Josephine Donovan: From Avenger to Victim: Genealogy of a Renaissance Novella . In: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature . 15, No. 2, October 1, 1996, ISSN  0732-7730 , pp. 269-288. doi : 10.2307 / 464137 .
  • Josephine Donovan: Women and the Framed-Novelle: A Tradition of Their Own . In: Signs . 22, No. 4, July 1, 1997, ISSN  0097-9740 , pp. 947-980.
  • Josephine Donovan: Ecofeminist Literary Criticism: Theory, Interpretation, Pedagogy . University of Illinois Press, 1998, ISBN 0-252-06708-8 , Reading the Orange, pp. 74-96 ( books.google.de ).
  • Josephine Donovan: Jewett on Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Imperialism: A Reply to Her Critics . In: Colby Quarterly . 38, No. 4, 2002, p. 7.
  • Josephine Donovan: Local-Color Literature and Modernity: The Example of Jewett . In: Tamkang Review . 38, No. 1, 2007, pp. 7-26.
  • Josephine Donovan: Feminist Style Criticism . In: Images of Women in Fiction . August, pp. 339-52.
  • Josephine Donovan, Joyce W. Warren: The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers . Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 1993, ISBN 978-0-8135-1911-1 , Breaking the sentence: Local-color literature and subjugated knowledges, pp. 226–43 ( ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: middlebury.edu )).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / f02.middlebury.edu
  • Josephine Donovan: Nan Prince and the Golden Apples . In: Colby Quarterly . 22, No. 1, 1986, p. 4.
Short stories
  • Josephine Donovan: The Hunt . In: Between the Species . 13, No. 10, 2010, p. 13.
  • Josephine Donovan: The Pig Roast . In: Between the Species . 13, No. 8, 2008, p. 10.
  • Josephine Donovan: At the Seashore . In: Between the Species . 13, No. 5, 2005, p. 1.
Encyclopedia Article
  • Feminism . In: The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2007, ISBN 978-0-7486-2097-5 .
  • Rose Terry Cooke, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Celia Thaxter, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward . In: Encyclopedia of American Literature . Continuum International Publishing Group, New York 1999, ISBN 0-8264-1052-9 .
  • Brilliana Harley, Lucy Hutchinson, Delariviere Manley and Mary Russell Mitford . In: Encyclopedia of British Women Writers . Garland, New York 1998, ISBN 0-8264-1052-9 .
  • Local colorists . In: Women's Studies Encyclopedia (=  Literature, Arts and Learning ). Greenwood Press, Westport 1990, ISBN 0-313-31073-4 .
  • Rose Terry Cooke . In: Dictionary of Literary Biography (=  American Short Story Writers before 1880 ). Gale Research, Detroit 1990.
  • Annie Adams Fields, Louise Imogen Guiney, Sarah Orne Jewett, Lucy Larcom and Celia Thaxter . In: American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide . tape 2 and 4. Ungar, New York 1982, ISBN 0-8264-0603-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ prabook.com .
personal data
SURNAME Donovan, Josephine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donovan, Josephine Campbell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Manila