A Literature of Their Own : British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing

Name: A Literature of Their Own : British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing
Author: Elaine Showalter
ISBN: 9780691004761

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A Literature of Their Own : British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing

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When first published in 1977, A Literature of Their Own quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers in England. A classic of feminist criticism, its impact continues to be felt today. This revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception and a new postscript chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women.

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LanguageEnglish

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Publication DateJan. 17th, 1999

Pages392

ISBN-139780691004761

Dimensions7.44 x 8.46 x 0.90 inches

ISBN-100691004765

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Elaine Showalter

In 1977, Showalter published A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing. It was one of the most influential works in feminist criticism, as it sought to establish a distinctive tradition for women writers. In later essays, Showalter helped to develop a clearly articulated feminist theory with two major branches: the special study of works by women and the study of all literature from a feminist perspective. In all of her recent writing, Showalter has sought to illuminate a "cultural model of female writing," distinguishable from male models and theories. Her role as editor bringing together key contemporary feminist criticism has been extremely influential on modern literary study.

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" A Literature of Their Own places the women novelists everyone has heard of ... in a new setting, considering them in relation to their relatively unknown female contemporaries. The resulting shift of perspective generates fresh social and literary understanding."
-- -Patricia Meyer Spacks, The New York Times Book Review

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Acknowledgments to the Expanded Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Twenty Years On: A Literature of Their Own Revisited
The Female Tradition	p. 3
The Feminine Novelists and the Will to Write	p. 37
The Double Critical Standard and the Feminine Novel	p. 73
Feminine Heroines: Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot	p. 100
Feminine Heroes: The Woman's Man	p. 133
Subverting the Feminine Novel: Sensationalism and Feminine Protest	p. 153
The Feminist Novelists	p. 182
Women Writers and the Suffrage Movement	p. 216
The Female Aesthetic	p. 240
Virginia Woolf and the Flight into Androgyny	p. 263
Beyond the Female Aesthetic: Contemporary Women Novelists	p. 298
Laughing Medusa	p. 320
Index	p. 337
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LanguageEnglish

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Publication DateJan. 17th, 1999

Pages392

ISBN-139780691004761

Dimensions7.44 x 8.46 x 0.90 inches

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Shipping Weight1.09 lbs

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