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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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