Elaine Showalter  

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"Central polemical texts contributing to this [sexual inversion] discourse include Symonds's A Problem in Greek Ethics (1883); and his A Problem in Modern Ethics (1891); Havelock Ellis's Sexual Inversion, originally written with Symonds, published and suppressed in England in 1897, and later to be included as volume 2 of Ellis's Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1901)." --Speaking of Gender (1989) by Elaine Showalter


"So how does Fear of Flying stand up as literature today? In my view, very well. Although she may not have known it, Jong was writing in a long tradition of American female novelists who used the semiautobiographical form of the Kunstlerroman (artist's novel) both to tell the story of their generation, and to redeem women's fiction from its demeaning associations with sentimentality, domesticity, and self-sacrifice. In novels from Mary Virginia Terhune's Alone (1853) and Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time (1855) to Mary Hunter Austin's A Woman of Genius (1912), Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark (1915), and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (1963), writers described the struggles of gifted women with their families, with their societies, and with themselves."-- Elaine Showalter via [1]

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Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She presumably coined the term gynocriticism, a term describing the study of "women as writers".

She is connected to écriture féminine, feminist literature and feminist literary criticism.

She contributed a chapter to Hysteria Beyond Freud (1993).

Bibliography

  • Showalter, Elaine. A literature of their own: British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977.
  • Showalter, Elaine. "Towards a Feminist Poetics," Women's Writing and Writing About Women. London: Croom Helm, 1979.
  • Showalter, Elaine. "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness," Critical Inquiry 8. University of Chicago: Winter, 1981.
  • Showalter, Elaine. The female malady: women, madness, and English culture, 1830–1980. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
  • Showalter, Elaine, ed. New feminist criticism: essays on women, literature, and theory. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
  • Showalter, Elaine. Sexual anarchy: gender and culture at the fin de siècle. New York: Viking, 1990.
  • Showalter, Elaine. Hystories: hysterical epidemics and modern media. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
  • Showalter, Elaine. Inventing herself: claiming a feminist intellectual heritage. New York: Scribner, 2001.
  • Showalter, Elaine. Teaching literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
  • Showalter, Elaine. Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.




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