Feminist literary criticism : explorations in theory / Josephine Donovan, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Donovan, Josephine, 1941- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist literary criticism.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (116 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first major book of feminist critical theory published in the United States is now available in an expanded second edition. This widely cited pioneering work presents a new introduction by the editor and a new bibliography of feminist critical theory from the last decade. This book has become indispensable to an understanding of feminist theory. Contributors include Cheri Register, Dorin Schumacher, Marcia Holly, Barbara Currier Bell, Carol Ohmann, Carolyn Heilbrun, Catherine Stimpson, and Barbara A. White.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Editor's Preface to the First Edition""; ""Introduction to the Second Edition: Radical Feminist Criticism""; ""NOTES""; ""American Feminist Literary Criticism: A Bibliographical Introduction""; ""The Case against ""Phallic Criticism""""; ""Prescriptive Feminist Criticism""; ""NOTES""; ""Subjectivities: A Theory of the Critical Process""; ""NOTES""; ""Consciousness and Authenticity: Toward a Feminist Aesthetic""; ""NOTES""; ""Virginia Woolf's Criticism: A Polemical Preface""; ""NOTES""

""Theories of Feminist Criticism: A Dialogue""""Afterword: Critical Re-Vision""; ""NOTES""; ""A Selected Bibliography of Feminist Literary Theory, 1975-1986""

Notes:

"with a new Introduction and Bibliography"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813157993

0813157994

OCLC:

556284309