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 Bront?s, 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.
關於作者:
Elaine Showalter, a professor emerita at Princeton, is the
author of numerous books. A frequent radio and TV commentator, she
has also chaired the Man Booker International Prize jury.