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

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

by ElaineShowalter (Author)

Synopsis

When first published in 1982 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 Brontes, 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. This revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception as well as a postscript chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 378
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Published: 01 Jan 1982

ISBN 10: 0860682854
ISBN 13: 9780860682851

Media Reviews
'Elaine Showalter's proceedings in this book, both as historian and as literary critic, are sane, illuminating, fascinating and wise' A.S. BAYATT, THE TIMES
Author Bio
Elaine Showalter is Avalon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University. She has written and edited many books.