| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
ix, 403 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 379-400. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Feminist critical revolution / Elaine Showalter -- Bringing the spirit back to English studies / Carolyn G. Heilbrun -- What do feminist critics want? A postcard from the volcano / Sandra M. Gilbert -- A map for rereading : gender and the interpretation literary text / Annette Kolodny -- Melodramas of beset manhood : how theories of American fiction exclude women authors / Nina Baym -- Sentimental power : Uncle Tom's cabin and the politics of literary history / Jane P. Tompkins -- Treason our text : feminist challenges to the literary canon / Lillian S. Robinson -- Toward a feminist poetics / Elaine Showalter -- Dancing through the minefield : some observations on the theory, practice, and politics of a feminist literary criticism / Annette Kolodny -- Toward a Black feminist criticism / Barbara Smith -- New directions for Black feminist criticism / Deborah E. McDowell -- What has never been : an overview of lesbian feminist criticism / Bonnie Zimmerman -- Are women's novels feminist novels? / Rosalind Coward -- Feminist criticism in the wilderness / Elaine Showalter -- For the Etruscans / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- "The blank page" and the issues of female creativity / Susan Gubar -- Thieves of language : women poets and revisionist mythmaking / Alicia Ostriker -- Emphasis added : plots and plausibilities in women's fiction / Nancy K. Miller -- Writing the body : toward an understanding of l'ecriture feminine / Ann Rosalind Jones. |
| Subject |
Feminist literary criticism.
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Feminism and literature.
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Women and literature.
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| Added Author |
Showalter, Elaine.
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| ISBN |
0394539133 |
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0394726472 paperback |
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