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.
A propos de l’auteur
Elaine Showalter is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University. She has written and edited many books, including
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and Society 1830-1980, Sister’s Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women’s Writing, Scribbling Women: Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century Women, and
Hystories. She is currently working on a study of feminist intellectuals.
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