Miller, Nancy K. 1941-

French dressing : men, women and fictions in the Ancien regime by Nancy K Miller( )

4 editions published between 1994 and 2013 in English and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

<STRONG></STRONG><STRONG> French Dressing </STRONG> looks at the ancien régime's scenarios of libertine seduction--unsafe sex and its consequences for women's lives. It places the gender performances of male and female-authored novels in dialogue in order to recover the complexity of a century obsessed, as we are today, with writing and living plots of desire. <STRONG></STRONG><STRONG> French </STRONG> <STRONG></STRONG><STRONG> Dressing </STRONG> exposes the erotic anxieties behind a national culture of sexual self-display--French undressing

My brilliant friends : our lives in feminism by Nancy K Miller( )

2 editions published in 2019 in English and held by 16 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

My Brilliant Friends is an innovative group biography of three friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the book is a captivating personal account of the complexities of women's bonds. Nancy K. Miller describes her friendships with three well-known scholars and literary critics: Carolyn Heilbrun, Diane Middlebrook, and Naomi Schor. Their relationships were simultaneously intimate and professional, emotional and intellectual, animated by the political ferment of the women's movement. Friendships like these sustained the generation of women whose entrance into male-dominated professions is still reshaping American society. The stories of their intertwined lives and books reveal how feminism illuminated the political importance of personal experience. Reflecting on aging and loss, ambition and rivalry, competition and collaboration, the three narratives combine to show us why and how friendship matters in the worlds of both work and love. Inspired in part by the portraits of two women's passionately enmeshed lives in Elena Ferrante's acclaimed Neapolitan novels, My Brilliant Friends presents a revisionary perspective on the history and future of friendships between women

Witness by Kathleen Fraser( Book )

2 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Gender and culture( )

in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bequest & betrayal : memoirs of a parent's death by Nancy K Miller( Book )

5 editions published between 1996 and 2000 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

How do we live with our parents after their death? How do we tell their story when they are gone? These questions are the subject of Nancy K. Miller's moving new book, Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death. Melding the details of her own experience with the familial biographies of well-known contemporary writers, Miller recreates a common experience - the loss of a father or a mother - and exposes the often tortuous paths of mourning and attachment that we follow in the wake of loss. In the process, she offers pieces of personal history, revealing the mixed emotions provoked by her mother's sudden death from cancer and her father's painful struggle with Parkinson's disease. Memoirs about the loss of parents show how enmeshed in the family plot we have been and the price of our complicity in its stories. The death of parents forces us to rethink our lives, to reread ourselves. We read for what we need to find. Sometimes, we also find what we didn't know we needed

Gender and genre : an analysis of literary femininity in the eighteenth-century novel by Nancy K Miller( )

5 editions published between 1974 and 1982 in English and held by 9 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Envy : Women's Studies Quarterly Fall/ Winter 2006( Book )

1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lettres d'une Péruvienne by Grafigny( Book )

1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A New history of French literature by Denis Hollier( Book )

1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Conceived for the general reader, this volume presents French literature not as a simple inventory of authors or titles, but rather as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary critical perspectives. The book consists of 164 essays by American and European scholars, and covers the history of French literature from 842 to 1989

But enough about me : why we read other people's lives by Nancy K Miller( Book )

2 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a feminist critic in the 1970s. As in her previous books, Miller interweaves pieces of her autobiography with the memoirs of contemporaries in order to explore the unexpected ways that the stories of other people's lives give meaning to our own. The evolution she chronicles was lived by a generation of literary girls who came of age in the midst of profound social change and, buoyed by the energy of second-wave feminism, became writers, academics, and activists. Miller's recollections form one woman's installment in a collective memoir that is still unfolding, an intimate page of a group portrait in process."--Pub. desc