Margaret Higonnet

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According to Wikipedia, Margaret Randolph Higonnet is an American author, teacher and historian who currently serves as a Professor Emerita at University of Connecticut. Early life and education Higonnet was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and came from an academic family – her mother a librarian and her father a professor. Later, the family moved from New Orleans to Maryland and then to Saint Louis, Missouri. Later, they would spend years in Pasadena, California, Vienna, Austria and Mexico City, Mexico. Margaret was the second of four girls and attended schools for girls and women. The family lived one year in Vienna, an occupied city where the impact of World War II was very visible. Higonnet attended Bryn Mawr College, graduating A.B. Magna cum laude in German in 1963. She also studied at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and University College London between 1963 and 1967. She obtained her PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University with distinction in 1970. Higonnet began her teaching career as in Instructor at the department of English at George Washington University in 1967.

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Margaret Higonnet's Published Works

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Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars (1987) (296)
Women's writing in exile (1992) (57)
The Playground of the Peritext (2009) (53)
The Representation Of Women In Fiction (1982) (45)
Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender In Children's Literature And Culture (2002) (44)
Authenticity and Art in Trauma Narratives of World War I (2002) (39)
SUICIDE: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE FEMININE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY* (1985) (38)
Borderwork: Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature (1995) (33)
Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War (2004) (28)
Frames of Female Suicide (2000) (27)
The sense of sex : feminist perspectives on Hardy (1993) (24)
Reconfigured spheres : feminist explorations of literary space (1994) (21)
Chapter 9. Not so Quiet in No-Woman's-Land (1993) (21)
The Great War and the Female Elegy: Female Lamentation and Silence in Global Contexts (2007) (16)
Narrative Fractures and Fragments (2009) (12)
Modernism and Childhood: Violence and Renovation (2009) (10)
Bitter Healing: German Women Writers from 1700 to 1830, an Anthology (1994) (10)
Comparatively Queer: Interrogating Identities across Time and Cultures (2010) (10)
The Humanities in Human Rights: Critique, Language, Politics (2006) (9)
Time Out: Trauma and Play in Johnny Tremain and Alan and Naomi (2005) (8)
Civility Books, Child Citizens, and Uncivil Antics (1992) (8)
Bachelard and the Romantic Imagination (1981) (7)
Façades: Walter Benjamin's Paris (1984) (7)
British women poets of the 19th century (1996) (7)
A Pride of Pleasures (2009) (6)
Lines of Fire (1999) (6)
“this winged nature fraught”: Suicide and Agency in Women's Poetry (2015) (5)
Women, Revolution, and Autobiographical Writing in the Twentieth Century: Writing History, Writing the Self (2007) (5)
Souvenirs of death (2007) (5)
Child Witnesses: The Cases of World War I and Darfur (2006) (5)
Toward Another Shore (1998) (5)
Anti-feminism in the Academy (2014) (4)
Bilingual Books for Children: An Interview with Nicolas Kanellos, Director of Pinata Press (2002) (4)
War and the Compulsion of Signs: Maurois's Rite of Initiation (2009) (3)
Women’s Poetry of the First World War (2013) (3)
The force of vision (1995) (3)
Organic Unity and Interpretative Boundaries: Friedrich Schlegel's Theories and Their Application in His Critique of Lessing (1980) (3)
Cleanliness and Class in the Countess de Ségur's Novels (2009) (3)
Introduction: Comparing queerly, queering comparison: Theorizing identities between cultures, histories, and disciplines (2010) (3)
The Literature of World War I and Conflicting Female Identities (2003) (2)
Dialogues with the dead: Enlightened selves, suicide, and human rights (2012) (2)
Girl Soldiers in World War I: Marina Yurlova and Sofja Nowosiełska (2011) (2)
Pierrot, or The Secrets of the Night (2009) (2)
Introduction: Comparing Queerly, Queering Comparison (2010) (2)
War Toys: Breaking and Remaking in Great War Narratives (2007) (2)
Cubist Vision in Nursing Accounts (2013) (2)
Three nurses’ life-writing. scrapbook, portrait, and construction of a self (2018) (1)
Writer Devoured by Children (2009) (1)
Tough Times for Feminism@@@Antifeminism in the Academy@@@Feminism and Social Change: Bridging Theory and Practice (1997) (1)
Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England by Olive Anderson (1989) (1)
X-Ray Vision: Women Photograph War (2010) (1)
Victorian Children and The French Revolution: Views from Below (2009) (1)
Khaki and Kisses (1998) (1)
Forum: Responses to Carolyn G. Heilbrun's Guest Column (2004) (1)
Telling thefts: Authenticity, authority, and male anxieties (1994) (1)
Madame de Stael and Schelling (1986) (1)
Academic Anorexia? Some Gendered Questions about Comparative Literature (1997) (1)
Women Writers and the War Experience: 1918 as Transition (2006) (1)
7. Cassandra's Question: Do Women Write War Novels? (2018) (1)
New visions of creation : feminist innovations in literary theory (1994) (1)
Hardy and his Critics: Gender in the Interstices (2010) (1)
Maternal Cosmopoetics: Käthe Kollwitz and European Women Poets of the First World War (2018) (1)
At the front (2013) (1)
Travel as Construction of Self and Nation (2017) (0)
India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs by Santanu Das (review) (2019) (0)
Emotions Unpurged: Antigeneric Theater and the Politics of Violence (0)
Perspectives from Particular Fields (1996) (0)
‘When is change not change?’ An interview with Margaret R. Higonnet on gender relations and the First World War (2019) (0)
Educating for Women’s Future: Thinking New Forms (2004) (0)
Episodes from a History of Undoing : The Heritage of Female Subversiveness (0)
Women writers and the war experience (2004) (0)
Episodes from a History of Undoing : The Heritage of Female Subversiveness (0)
A Challenge to Global Literary History: The Case of World War I (2018) (0)
From Alice to Algernon: The Evolution of Child Consciousness in the Novel by Holly Blackford (review) (2020) (0)
The Play of Comparison (2008) (0)
War Games (1998) (0)
Book Review:A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture. Samuel Hynes (1993) (0)
Did the two World Wars really trigger fundamental changes in the gender order and contribute to the emancipation of women , as is often claimed ? (2019) (0)
Helen Mackay, American modernist: finding a form for the Great War (2021) (0)
Cooking Up a New Journal (2022) (0)
A Battlefield of One's Own (1988) (0)
Literature at War, 1914-1940: Representing the "Time of Greatness" in Germany (review) (2000) (0)
Facades-Benjamin, Walter Paris (1984) (0)
Other Fronts and Conflicts in German Nursing Accounts (2018) (0)
Ventriloquizing Voices in World War I (2017) (0)
A French Austen (1994) (0)
Veiling Gender in French Literary History (2012) (0)
Nomadic Criticism (2010) (0)
Notes About Contributors (1971) (0)
Visions in history . Visions of the other (1995) (0)
“When is change not change?” Gender Relations and the First World War (2018) (0)
Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (review) (2009) (0)
Critical Apertures (2009) (0)
Picturing the Western Front: photography, practices and experiences in First World War France (2023) (0)
Suffering and sunset: World War I in the art and life of Horace Pippin (2020) (0)

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