The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature, and Theory

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During the last decade, our academic, literary, and cultural institutions . have all felt the impact of a feminist critical revolution. Feminist criticism has flourished in combination with every other critical approach from formalism to semiotics, and in the literary study of every period and genre from the Middle Ages to the mass media. Since the late 1960s, when feminist criticism developed as part of the international women's movement, the assumptions of literary study have been profoundly altered. Contents Introduction What Do Feminist Critics Want? Bringing the Spirit Back to English Studies A Postcard from the Volcano A Map for Rereading Melodramas of Beset Manhood Sentimental Power Treason Our Text Feminist Criticisms and Women's Cultures Toward a Feminist Poetics Dancing Through the Minefield Toward a Black Feminist Criticism What Has Never Been Are Women's Novels Feminist Novels? Women's Writing and Feminist Critical Theories Feminist Criticismin the Wilderness For the Etruscans "The Blank Page" and the Issues of Female Creativity The Thieves of Language Emphasis Added Writing the Body Bibliography Notes on the Contributors