| Collation |
xxxiii, 347 pages ; 22 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: -- Twenty years on: a literature of their own revisited -- ch. 1. Female tradition -- ch. 2. Feminine novelists and the will to write -- ch. 3. Double critical standard and the feminine novel -- ch. 4. Feminine heroines: Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot -- ch. 5. Feminine heroes: the woman's man -- ch. 6. Subverting the feminine novel: sensationalism and feminine protest -- ch. 7. Feminine novelists -- ch. 8. Women writers and the suffrage movement -- ch. 9. Female aesthetic -- ch. 10. Virginia Woolf and the flight into androgyny -- ch. 11. Beyond the female aesthetic: contemporary women novelists -- ch. 12. Laughing Medusa. |
| Summary |
"When first published in 1977, Elaine Showalter's 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 generation of students, scholars, readers, and writers have since benefited from the twenty years of rediscovery and appreciation that A Literature of Their Own instigated." "This revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception as well as a new postscript chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women." -- book jacket. |
| Note |
Gift of Francine Parker and Amanda, Ian and Troy Parker. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
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Women novelists, English -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0691004765 (paper : acid-free paper) |
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9780691004761 (paper : acid-free paper) |
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