Post- world War II, Victorian Female, and Romantic Period Female Literature Comparison of Language

Roxane Gay (1974–)

Incisive, thoughtful, and humorous feminist writer Roxane Gay burst onto The New York Times bestseller list in 2014 with her pop culture-obsessed book of essays, Bad Feminist, wherein she extolled the virtues of the color pink despite its stereotypes and pondered the people’s power inherent in Twitter. Since, she’s inspected society’s deeper intersections of identity and culture through poignant, forthright prose.
Gay is a true veteran of the early internet age, having published abbreviated versions of her essays on Tumblr in its nascent days. Gay also published two collections of short stories entitled Ayiti and Difficult Women, the novel An Untamed State, and the memoir Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. The latter, a bracing account of Gay’s trauma after sexual assault and her struggle in her relationship to her body, also became a New York Times bestseller. 
Gay has taught as an English professor at Yale University, Eastern Illinois University, and Purdue University and is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.
2.1 Comparison of Language
Diction
In Robert Silverberg's introduction to James Tiptree Jr.’s "The Girl Who Was Plugged In," he expressed the sentiment that the pseudonym must belong to a man, as the syntax and lexicon used in the short story were undeniably masculine. Silverberg compares Tiptree’s writing to that of Hemingway, saying that the masculinity is found in the fact that the writing was "simple, direct and straightforward" and uses the style of "relying on dialog broken by bursts of stripped down exposition".^[14] He was later proven to be wrong, as Tiptree is actually Alice Sheldon, a female writer. This raises the question about whether or not male and female writers have definite difference in the way that they write, and if there are certain parameters that define "women’s writing". In fact, multiple studies support the fact that there are dissimilarities that exist between the two.
Each generation uses language of the period. The languages of the Victorian and Romantic period were more formal than that of modernism and post-modernism. Unsavory language was not typically used, although Emily Bronte did include curse words and foul language in her novel. In that period such scandalous language would have made a strong impression, which was most likely Bronte’s intention. In the 20^th and 21^st century such language is more widely accepted. Carson’s use of foul language in “The Glass Essay” does not have the shock value that would have been the reaction of poetry in the past.
Of all the new developments in literary theory, feminism has proved to be the most widely influential, leading to an expansion of the traditional English canon in all periods of study. This book aims to make the work of Renaissance women writers in English better known to general and academic readers so as to strengthen the case for their future inclusion in the Renaissance literary canon.
This lively book surveys women writers in the sixteenth century and early seventeenth centuries. Its selection is vast, historically representative, and original, taking examples from twenty different, relatively unknown authors in all genres of writing, including poetry, fiction, religious works, letters and journals, translation, and books on childcare. It establishes new contexts for the debate about women as writers within the period and suggests potential intertextual connections with works by well-known male authors of the same time.
Individual authors and works are given concise introductions, with both modern and historical critical analysis, setting them in a theoretical and historicised context. All texts are made readily accessible through modern spelling and punctuation, on-the-page annotation and headnotes. The substantial, up-to-date bibliography provides a source for further study and research.