A Literature of Their Own : : British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing / / 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 i...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1977 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |