MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press.
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Elaine Showalter
Standard Name: Showalter, Elaine
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Olive Schreiner | 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 .... |
| Literary responses | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Bertrand Russell
exclaimed that it was one of the most exciting novels [he had] read in the English language. Ramm, Benjamin. The Irish novel that seduced the USSR. |
| 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 , pp. 5-23. Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press. 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, p. 40. 40 |
| Literary responses | Jeanette Winterson | Advance readers compared the book favourably to Winterson' s popular early novels, even though they considered it to contain the same excesses that readers disliked in later works. However, according to Elaine Showalter
in the... |
| Literary responses | Ellen Wood | The following year, Elaine Showalter
, in her influential A Literature of Their Own, 1977, claimed that for EW[w]riting was a form of release that enabled her to recover from her illness and... |
| Literary responses | Helen Dunmore | Amid a chorus of welcoming and appreciative reviewers, Elaine Showalter
in the Guardian was highly critical. |
| Literary responses | Sarah Stickney Ellis | SSE
was viewed with ambivalence by a later generation of critics who sought to reclaim women's literature. Sandra Gilbert
and Susan Gubar
, for example, read Ellis as a willing captive in a separate sphere... |
| 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... |
| 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. prelims |
| 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... |
| 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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