A literature of their own : British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing

Showalter, Elaine (Author).

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ISBN: 0691063184
ISBN: 9780691063188
Physical Description: print
viii, 378 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1977.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-365) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

ch. 1. The female tradition -- ch. 2. The feminine novelists and the will to write -- ch. 3. The double critical standard and the feminine novel -- ch. 4. Feminine heroines: Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot -- ch. 5. Femine heroes: the woman's man -- ch. 6. Subverting the feminine novel: sensationalism and feminine protest -- ch. 7. The feminine novelists -- ch. 8. Women writers and the suffrage movement -- ch. 9. The female aesthetic -- ch. 10. Virginia Woolf and the flight into androgyny -- ch. 11. Beyond the female aesthetic: contemporary women novelists.

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