A Literature of Their Own

Showalter, Elaine

ISBN 10: 0691004765 / ISBN 13: 9780691004761

Published by Princeton University Press (edition Revised and Expanded ed.), 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Literature of Their Own
• Publisher: Princeton University Press (edition Revised and Expanded ed.)
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691004765
• ISBN 13: 9780691004761
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Revised and Expanded ed.
• Condition: Fair

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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.

About the Author

Elaine Showalter is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University. She has written and edited many books, including The Female Malady: Women, Madness and Society 1830-1980, Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing, Scribbling Women: Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century Women, and Hystories. She is currently working on a study of feminist intellectuals.