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Literature of Their Own : British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing by Elaine Showalter (1978, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691013438
ISBN-139780691013435
eBay Product ID (ePID)320389
Product Key Features
Number of Pages392 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameLiterature of Their Own : British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing
SubjectWomen Authors, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year1978
TypeTextbook
AuthorElaine Showalter
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight15.9 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN76-003018
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition19
Reviews"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, "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, 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, "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, "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, 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
Dewey Decimal828/.8/099287
SynopsisWhen first published in 1977,A Literature of Their Ownquickly 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., 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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