A History Of Feminist Literary Criticism
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| Author | : Gill Plain |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2007-08-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139465821 |
Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism, leading scholars chart the development of the practice from the Middle Ages to the present. The first section of the book explores protofeminist thought from the Middle Ages onwards, and analyses the work of pioneers such as Wollstonecraft and Woolf. The second section examines the rise of second-wave feminism and maps its interventions across the twentieth century. A final section examines the impact of postmodernism on feminist thought and practice. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the history and development of feminist literary criticism and a lively reassessment of the main issues and authors in the field. It is essential reading for all students and scholars of feminist writing and literary criticism.
| Author | : Sandra M. Gilbert |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
| Total Pages | : 997 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780393927900 |
With selections by more than 100 writers and scholars, the Reader is an ideal companion for literature surveys where critical and theoretical texts are featured, as well as a rich, flexible core text for advanced courses in feminist theory and criticism. The Reader can be packaged with the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, Third Edition, at a substantial discount.
| Author | : Janet Todd |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2018-03-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0745678246 |
In this timely book Janet Todd offers an analysis and defence of the feminist literary history practised by Elaine Showalter and other contemporary American literary critics. She argues that this approach rightly links the political concerns of feminist criticism to the uncovering of female voices embedded in history. Todd reconstructs the development of feminist literary history from the 1960s through to the present day, highlighting the central themes as well as the strengths and weaknesses. She then examines the debate between American feminist critics, on the one hand, and feminist critics inspired by the work of French theorists such as Kristeva, Irigaray and Cixous, on the other. She defends feminist literary history against its critics and casts doubt on some of the uses of psychoanalysis in feminism. Todd also considers the debate with men and assesses the relevance of academic analyses of gender, masculinity and homosexuality. Feminist Literary History is a forceful and committed work, which addresses some of the most important issues in contemporary feminist theory and literary criticism. It will be widely read as an introductory text by students in English literature, modern languages, women's studies and cultural studies.
| Author | : Jane Gallop |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0415522838 |
A clear-eyed and comprehensive history of feminist literary criticism. In a novel approach, the inquiry is structured around anthologies of feminist criticism: twelve important texts that have had a wide impact on more than a decade of scholarship. In reading an anthology as a whole, the author identifies a central, hegemonic voice which would organise all the voices into a unity, and then explores the resistance within that volume to such a unity. Weight is placed behind these internal differences as a wedge against the centrist drive. This book brilliantly illuminates the dilemma of the feminist critic, divided by her allegiance to both feminism and literary studies.
| Author | : Gayle Greene |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0415523567 |
These twenty autobiographical essays by eminent feminist literary critics explore the process by which women scholars became feminist scholars, articulating the connections between the personal and political in their lives and work. From these diverse histories a collective history emerges of the development of feminism. Offering a spectrum of experiences and critical positions that engage with current debates in feminism, it will be valuable to teachers and students of feminist theory, women's studies, and the history of the women's movement.
| Author | : Ellen Rooney |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 2006-07-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139826638 |
Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the field. Some of the essays demonstrate feminist critical principles at work in analysing texts, while others take a step back to trace the development of a particular feminist literary method. The essays draw on a range of primary material from the medieval period to postmodernism and from several countries, disciplines and genres. Each essay suggests further reading to explore this field further. This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and literature.
| Author | : Josephine C. Donovan |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 131 |
| Release | : 2021-03-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0813181631 |
The first major book of feminist critical theory published in the United States is now available in an expanded second edition. This widely cited pioneering work presents a new introduction by the editor and a new bibliography of feminist critical theory from the last decade. This book has become indispensable to an understanding of feminist theory. Contributors include Cheri Register, Dorin Schumacher, Marcia Holly, Barbara Currier Bell, Carol Ohmann, Carolyn Heilbrun, Catherine Stimpson, and Barbara A. White.
| Author | : Mary Eagleton |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2014-06-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317900057 |
Looks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of discourse. It also provides an overview of the developments in feminist literary theory, and covers all the major debates within literary feminism, including "male feminism".
| Author | : Robyn R. Warhol |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1238 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780813523897 |
"Everything you might want to know about the history and practice of feminist criticism in North America". -Feminist Bookstore News
| Author | : Deborah Rosenfelt |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2013-05-20 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136204490 |
This lively and controversial collection of essays sets out to theorize and practice a ‘materialist-feminist’ criticism of literature and culture. Such a criticism is based on the view that the material conditions in which men and women live are central to an understanding of culture and society. It emphasises the relation of gender to other categories of analysis, such as class and race, and considers the connection between ideology and cultural practice, and the ways in which all relations of power change with changing social and economic conditions. By presenting a wide range of work by major feminist scholars, this anthology in effect defines as well as illustrates the materialist-feminist tendency in current literary criticism. The essays in the first part of the book examine race, ideology, and the literary canon and explore the ways in which other critical discourse, such as those of deconstruction and French feminism, might be useful to a feminist and materialist criticism. The second part of the book contains examples of such criticism in practice, with studies of individual works, writers and ideas. An introduction by the editors situates the collected essays in relation both to one another and to a shared materialist/feminist project. Feminist Criticism and Social Change demonstrates the important contribution of materialist-feminist criticism to our understanding of literature and society, and fulfils a crucial need among those concerned with gender and its relation to criticism.
