A Literature of Their Own : : British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing / / Elaine Showalter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Showalter, Elaine,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments to the Expanded Edition --; Acknowledgments --; INTRODUCTION. Twenty Years On: A Literature of Their Own Revisited --; I The Female Tradition --; II The Feminine Novelists and the Will to Write --; III The Double Critical Standard and the Feminine Novel --; IV Feminine Heroines: Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot --; V Feminine Heroes: The Woman's Man --; VI Subverting the Feminine Novel: Sensationalism and Feminine Protest --; VII The Feminist Novelists --; VIII Women Writers and the Suffrage Movement --; IX The Female Aesthetic --; X Virginia Woolf and the Flight into Androgyny --; XI Beyond the Female Aesthetic: Contemporary Women Novelists --; XII Laughing Medusa --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691221960; 9783110442496; 9783110784237
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691221960?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Elaine Showalter.

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.