Problems for feminist criticism / edited by Sally Minogue.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Minogue, Sally, editor.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Feminist theory ; v. 24.

Routledge library editions. Feminist theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist literary criticism.

Feminist theory.

English literature.

Women in literature.

Literature.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 241 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Feminist criticism has come a long way in the last twenty years. Its development has been rapid, its snowball progress picking up elements of structuralism, deconstruction and psychoanalytic criticism; just as rapidly it has been shedding its own early theories and methodologies. Now it is a critical orthodoxy with its own established canonical texts. Now is the time, then, to begin to question that orthodoxy. In Problems for Feminist Criticism five women critics seek to do that, in a spirit of enquiry whose central point of focus is the literature for which feminist critics have off

Contents:

PROBLEMS FOR FEMINIST CRITICISM; Copyright; PROBLEMS FOR FEMINIST CRITICISM; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Problems for Feminist Criticism; 1 The Talkative Woman in Shakespeare, Dickens and George Eliot; 2 Milton on Women - Yet again; 3 Gender and Class in Villette and North and South; 4 'Wooman, Lovely Wooman': Four Dickens Heroines and the Critics; 5 Lawrence's Men and Women: Complements and Opposites; 6 Prescriptions and Proscriptions: Feminist Criticism and Contemporary Poetry; Index

Notes:

First published in 1990 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9781136195242

1136195246

9780203085004

0203085000

9781283841597

1283841592

9781136195259

1136195254

OCLC:

823737889