A Literature of Their Own

British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing

Elaine Showalter

• Editorial: Princeton University Press
• Año: 2020
• ISBN:
  9780691221960
• Categoría: Literature
• Categoría: Literary Criticism for Women Authors

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.