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A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing

By Elaine Showalter

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1977
ISBN
0691013438, 9780691013435
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14311972 bytes)
Edition
Revised
Pages
378\389
Time added
2016-10-23 16:37:34
Classics;Literature & Fiction;Criticism & Theory;H

Description

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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