Against the Grain: Essays 1975-1985 Lauren Hough Author/Contributor(s): Sheehan

Author/Contributor(s): Sheehan

Volume one gathers the first five Hainish novels: Rocannon’s World

because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land

She identifies the household as a primary site for the construction of power relations and compares the extent to which gender inequalities are revealed in different approaches to the concept of the family unit

Against the Grain: Essays 1975-1985 Lauren Hough Author/Contributor(s): SheehanAuthor Contributor(s): Eagleton, Terry Publisher: Verso Date: 7 17 1986 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW These essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagletons continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is both materialist and open to diverse currents of thought in the human sciences. Eagletons combative intelligence here explores the encounter between Marxism and contemporary European and American literary