Research Catalog

Title

Feminist literary theory : a reader / edited by Mary Eagleton.

Publication

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Eagleton, Mary.

Description

xxv, 475 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

First published in 1986 with a second edition in 1996, Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader constitutes one of the classic texts of second-into-third-wave feminist literary studies. Both a history and a survey of the varied positions within feminist literary theory, the Reader includes extracts from all the major critics, critical approaches, and theoretical positions in contemporary feminist literary studies.

Subject

Feminist literary criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I: Finding a female tradition -- A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- A literature of their own: British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing / Elaine Showalter -- 'Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence' / Adrienne Rich -- Feminist practice and poststructuralist theory / Chris Weedon -- 'The rise of black feminist literary studies' / Anne Ducille -- 'Race and gender in the shaping of the American literary canon: a case study from the twenties' / Paul Lauter -- 'Telling feminist stories' / Clare Hemmings -- Doing time: feminist theory and postmodernist culture / Rita Felski -- 'Happy families? Feminist reproduction and matrilineal thought' / Linda R. Williams -- Literary relations: kinship and the canon / Jane Spencer -- 'Parables and politics: feminist criticism in 1986' / Nancy K. Miller --

ISBN

• 9781405183130 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1405183136 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010016557

OCLC

• 608492030
• SCSB-12414506

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library