Description
| Product ID: | 9781844084968 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Literature Of Their Own |
| Subtitle: | British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing |
| Authors: | Author: Elaine Showalter |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Gender studies: women, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating * Revised and expanded edition with a new introduction and postscript, published to coincide with Elaine Showalter's new hardback, A JURY OF HER PEERS 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 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. This edition, revised and expanded in 1997, contains an 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-05-07 |
