A literature of their own : British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing /
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 and the development of their fi...
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| Idioma: | inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv173f0v7 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.