Lynne Hanley

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Lynne Hanley (1943- ) is a feminist writer, literary critic, and Professor of Writing and Literature, Interdisciplinary Arts, at Hampshire College.

1 Background
2 Publications
- 2.1 Select articles
- 2.2 Book
3 External links

[edit] Background

Hanley received a B.A. in English from Cornell University, an M.A. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to Hampshire, she taught at Princeton University, Douglass College and Mount Holyoke College.

[edit] Publications

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"Sleeping with the Enemy: Doris Lessing in the Century of Destruction" in The Columbia History of the British Novel. Richetti, John (ed.); Bender, John (assoc. ed.); David, Deirdre (assoc. ed.); Seidel, Michael (assoc. ed.). New York: Columbia UP, 1994: 918-38
"To El Salvador" in Critical Responses in Arts and Letters, #8: The Critical Response to Joan Didion. Sharon Felton (ed.) Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993.
"Writing Across the Color Bar: Apartheid and Desire." In Massachusetts Review: A Quarterly of Literature, the Arts and Public Affairs, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 495-506, Summer 1991
"Alias Jane Somers." Doris Lessing Newsletter, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 5-6, 14, Spring 1988.

[edit] Book

Hanley's book Writing War: Fiction, Gender and Memory (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991) is considered an important work of feminist criticism. It includes essays on Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and Doris Lessing.