Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
83, n93
Elaine Showalter
Standard Name: Showalter, Elaine
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Pearl S. Buck | Maxine Hong Kingston
, meanwhile, said in 1992 that her search for Chinese women's voices was first answered by PSB
's work. |
| Literary responses | Maggie Gee | Elaine Showalter
picked this as a favourite read of the year, saying that it brilliantly negotiates the explosive racial territory that it stakes out. “2009 in Review: Christmas Books”. Guardian Weekly, 28 Nov. 2009. 54 |
| Literary responses | Mary Cholmondeley | Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC
to Charlotte Brontë
or George Eliot
; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. qtd. in Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol. 20 , No. 2, Apr. 1970, pp. 213-28. 214 |
| Literary responses | Sarah Grand | 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. Mangum, Teresa. Married, Middlebrow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel. University of Michigan Press, 1998. 220 |
| Literary responses | Dinah Mulock Craik | 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. Showalter, Elaine. “Dinah Mulock Craik and the Tactics of Sentiment: A Case Study in Victorian Female Authorship”. Feminist Studies, Vol. 2 , 1975, pp. 5-23. Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press, 1977. 85-6 |
| Literary responses | Margaret Drabble | Elaine Showalter
has called this story clever, playful and unpretentious. Showalter, Elaine. “A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble”. Guardian Weekly, 29 July 2011, p. 40. 40 |
| Literary responses | Geraldine Jewsbury | 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... |
| Literary responses | Helen Dunmore | Amid a chorus of welcoming and appreciative reviewers, Elaine Showalter
in the Guardian was highly critical. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Michelene Wandor | 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | Apart from the helpfulness of those close to her, Roberts acknowledges here the scholarly work of Alex Owen
and Elaine Showalter
. Roberts, Michèle. In the Red Kitchen. Methuen, 1990. prelims |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Mathers | 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 |
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