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A literature of their own : British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing / Elaine Showalter.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Showalter, Elaine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--Women authors.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History.
- Women and literature.
- Women novelists, English--Biography.
- Women novelists, English.
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
- Woolf, Virginia.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Criticism and interpretation.
- Eliot, George.
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
- Brontë, Charlotte.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Novela inglesa--Siglo XX--Historia y crítica.
- Literatura inglesa--Mujeres como autoras--Historia y crítica.
- Autores ingleses--Biografía.
- Local Subjects:
- Novela inglesa--Siglo XX--Historia y crítica.
- Literatura inglesa--Mujeres como autoras--Historia y crítica.
- Autores ingleses--Biografía.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 378 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1977]
- Summary:
- 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 and the development of their fiction from the 1800s onwards. It includes assessments of famous writers such as the Brontës, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Drabble and Doris Lessing, but also presents critical appraisals of Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Sarah Grand --- to name but a few of those prolific and successful Victorian novelists - --once household names, now largely forgotten.
- Contents:
- ch. 1. The female tradition
- ch. 2. The feminine novelists and the will to write
- ch. 3. The double critical standard and the feminine novel
- ch. 4. Feminine heroines: Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot
- ch. 5. Femine heroes: the woman's man
- ch. 6. Subverting the feminine novel: sensationalism and feminine protest
- ch. 7. The feminine novelists
- ch. 8. Women writers and the suffrage movement
- ch. 9. The female aesthetic
- ch. 10. Virginia Woolf and the flight into androgyny
- ch. 11. Beyond the female aesthetic: contemporary women novelists.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-365) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691063184 :
- 9780691063188
- 0691013438
- 9780691013435
- OCLC:
- 2387960
- Online:
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