A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing

By Elaine Showalter

Book Overview

When first published in 1977, A Literature of Their Own quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers in England. A classic of feminist criticism, its impact continues to be felt today. This revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception and a new postscript chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691013438
• ISBN13: 9780691013435
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.8" x 10.0"