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

Showalter, Elaine

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ISBN 10: 0691063184 ISBN 13: 9780691063188

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1977

Riassunto

Describes the female literary tradition in the English novel and the social backgrounds of the women who composed it

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Recensione:

"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

Contenuti:

	Acknowledgments to the Expanded Edition
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Twenty Years On: A Literature of Their Own Revisited
I	The Female Tradition	3
II	The Feminine Novelists and the Will to Write	37
III	The Double Critical Standard and the Feminine Novel	73
IV	Feminine Heroines: Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot	100
V	Feminine Heroes: The Woman's Man	133
VI	Subverting the Feminine Novel: Sensationalism and Feminine Protest	153
VII	The Feminist Novelists	182
VIII	Women Writers and the Suffrage Movement	216
IX	The Female Aesthetic	240
X	Virginia Woolf and the Flight into Androgyny	263
XI	Beyond the Female Aesthetic: Contemporary Women Novelists	298
XII	Laughing Medusa	320
	Index	337

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0691063184
• ISBN 13: 9780691063188
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 392