Publisher's Synopsis
This book both captures the sweep of women's literary achievement in the modern period and the impact of the radical new moral principles outlined in their fiction. The novelists, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, Djuna Barnes, Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison, are treated here not only as major literary figures in their own right, but as part of a tradition of women's writing that has as its project nothing less than an attempt to shift the moral ideas of the modern world.
