The advent of female literature promises woman's view of life, woman's experience: in other words, a new element.
An edition of A literature of their own
(1975)
A literature of their own
British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing
Expanded Edition
by Elaine Showalter
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When first published in 1977, Elaine Showalter's 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 generation of students, scholars, readers, and writers have since benefited from the twenty years of rediscovery and appreciation that A Literature of Their Own instigated.
This revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception as well as 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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English fiction, History and criticism, Women authors, English Women novelists, Biography, Women and literature, History, Écrits de femmes anglais, Historia y crítica, Novela inglesa, Biografía, Mujeres como autoras, Literatura inglesa, Autores ingleses, Histoire et critique, Roman anglais, English fiction, history and criticism, Literature, women authors, Criticism and interpretation, Frau, Frauenliteratur, Frauenroman, Romanschriftstellerin, Femmes écrivains, Femmes et littérature, Histoire, Romancières anglaises, Biographies, Roman, English fiction--women authors--history and criticism, English fiction--history and criticism, English fiction--19th century--history and criticism, English fiction--20th century--history and criticism, Women and literature--history, Women and literature--great britain--history, Women novelists, english, Women novelists, english--biography, Pr115 .s5x 1982Places
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A literature of their own: British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing
1999, Princeton University Press
in English
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A literature of their own: British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing
1982, Virago
in English
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Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing
March 1978, Princeton Univ Pr
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0691013438 9780691013435
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A literature of their own: British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing
1977, Princeton University Press
in English
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A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronteto Lessing
January 1, 1975, Time Warner Books UK
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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 and the development of their fiction from the 1800s onwards. It includes assessments of famous writers such as the Brontës, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Drabble and Doris Lessing, but also presents critical appraisals of Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Sarah Grand --- to name but a few of those prolific and successful Victorian novelists - --once household names, now largely forgotten.
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