A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing - Softcover

Showalter, Elaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691004765 ISBN 13: 9780691004761

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"A Literature of Their Own" places the women novelists everyone has heard of ... in a new setting, considering them in relation to their relatively unknown female contemporaries. The resulting shift of perspective generates fresh social and literary understanding.--Patricia Meyer Spacks "The New York Times Book Review "

Ought to be required reading for anyone who cares about women or the history of the novel. [This book] is a rare thing: a book of literary criticism that illuminates our lives.--Erica Jong "The Los Angeles Times Book Review "

This book is absolutely and immediately essential reading.... It will remain for a very long time a book to refer to again and again for both information and ideas.--John Goode "The Times Higher Education Supplement "
"A Literature of Their Own" places the women novelists everyone has
heard of ... in a new setting, considering them in relation to their
relatively unknown female contemporaries. The resulting shift of perspective
generates fresh social and literary understanding.
--Patricia Meyer Spacks "The New York Times Book Review "
Ought to be required reading for anyone who cares about women or the history
of the novel. [This book] is a rare thing: a book of literary criticism that
illuminates our lives.
--Erica Jong "The Los Angeles Times Book Review "
This book is absolutely and immediately essential reading.... It will remain
for a very long time a book to refer to again and again for both information
and ideas.
--John Goode "The Times Higher Education Supplement "

""A Literature of Their Own" places the women novelists everyone has heard of ... in a new setting, considering them in relation to their relatively unknown female contemporaries. The resulting shift of perspective generates fresh social and literary understanding."--Patricia Meyer Spacks, "The New York Times Book Review"

"A Literature of Their Own places the women novelists everyone has heard of ... in a new setting, considering them in relation to their relatively unknown female contemporaries. The resulting shift of perspective generates fresh social and literary understanding."--Patricia Meyer Spacks, The New York Times Book Review

"Ought to be required reading for anyone who cares about women or the history of the novel. [This book] is a rare thing: a book of literary criticism that illuminates our lives."--Erica Jong, The Los Angeles Times Book Review

"This book is absolutely and immediately essential reading.... It will remain for a very long time a book to refer to again and again for both information and ideas."--John Goode, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Book Description:

* Revised and expanded edition with a new introduction and postscript, published to coincide with Elaine Showalter's new hardback, A JURY OF HER PEERS

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0691004765
• ISBN 13: 9780691004761
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384