Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter brought SG to the attention of late-twentieth-century New Woman and feminist criticism in A Literature of Their Own, 1977, where she discussed The Heavenly Twins and The Beth Book. Since...

Most major shifts in second-wave feminist literary criticism have been marked by influential rereadings of Jane Eyre: Ellen Moers (1976) and Elaine Showalter (1977) in the assertion of a female literary tradition; the Marxist-Feminist Literature Collective

Despite GJ 's reputation among her contemporaries as a major influence on Victorian literature, her contributions as author and critic have faded into obscurity. Late in the period, Margaret Oliphant passed her over in The...

Maxine Hong Kingston , meanwhile, said in 1992 that her search for Chinese women's voices was first answered by PSB 's work.Elaine Showalter has written that it is time for Buck to...

Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC to Charlotte Brontë or George Eliot ; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. An Edinburgh Review article written in 1900 praised Red Pottage in...

The book is a landmark text. In an introduction to an edition of 1968, Doris Lessing (who first read it when she was fourteen) identified it as one of the few rare books ....

Bertrand Russell exclaimed that it was one of the most exciting novels [he had] read in the English language. Many responses were inflected by gender. Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo) poetically asserted: It is doubtful...

Elaine Showalter initiated feminist interest in DMC , first with a substantial article and then with treatment of her as a paradigmatic feminine novelist who promoted domesticity as a defensive strategy.Cora Kaplan ...

MW became interested in Browning in 1972 after reading an article by feminist critic Elaine Showalter , but did not begin writing the play for a few years. She found the process of adapting the...

Rich was during her lifetime and still is widely acclaimed and honoured as a major poet, theorist, and critic of culture. Her poetry and prose have been examined in literary and social criticism, and in...

Apart from the helpfulness of those close to her, Roberts acknowledges here the scholarly work of Alex Owen and Elaine Showalter . She felt, too, that the book was influenced by the place where...

Her mother, about whom little is known, was born Maria Buckingham . Her daughter's most famous work, Comin' Thro' the Rye, depicts a sweet and exhausted mother who is, according to critic Elaine Showalter