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

• Showalter, Elaine, 1941-

• English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism

• Princeton University Press,

• 9780691004761
• 0691004765

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: Twenty Years On: A Literature of Their Own Revisited I The Female Tradition; II The Feminine Novelists and the Will to Write; III The Double Critical Standard and the Feminine Novel; IV Feminine Heroines: Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot; V Feminine Heroes: The Woman's Man; VI Subverting the Feminine Novel: Sensationalism and Feminine Protest; VII The Feminist Novelists; VIII Women Writers and the Suffrage Movement; IX The Female Aesthetic; X Virginia Woolf and the Flight into Androgyny; XI Beyond the Female Aesthetic: Contemporary Women Novelists; XII Laughing Medusa. Index
• Previous ed.: 1982.

• Saints sinners saviors strong Black women in African American literature
• book history reader
• Shakespeare Spenser Donne Renaissance essays
• Dead secrets Wilkie Collins and the female gothic
• Renaissance drama by women texts and documents
• Victorian novelists and publishers
• Shakespeares stagecraft
• nineteenth century novel a critical reader
• Debating texts a reader in twentieth century literary theory and method
• Becoming frauds unconventional heroines in Mary Elizabeth Braddons sensation fiction
• D H Lawrence
• Twelfth night
• Subversive discourse the cultural production of late Victorian feminist novels
• street was mine white masculinity in hardboiled fiction and film noir
• Dressed in fiction
• Who was Baudelaire
• D H Lawrence and his world
• Hallucinations life in the post modern city
• nineteenth century novel identities
• Sexing the cherry
• invisible flaneuse gender public space and visual culture in nineteenth century Paris
• Beyond sensation Mary Elizabeth Braddon in context
• Elizabethan love sonnet
• Virtue in distress studies in the novel of sentiment from Richardson to Sade
• Detective fiction and the rise of forensic science
• Ambiguous discourse feminist narratology & British women writers
• Zora Neale Hurstons their eyes were watching God a casebook
• D H Lawrence novelist poet prophet
• new feminist criticism essays on women literature and theory
• Representing women in Renaissance England
• Eighteenth century writers in their world a mighty maze
• nineteenth century novel realisms
• Image and power women in fiction in the twentieth century
• rhetoric of fiction
• industrial reformation of English fiction social discourse and narrative form 1832 1867
• Romancing the postmodern
• News from nowhere or An epoch of rest being some chapters from a utopian romance
• postmodern political condition
• Routledge literary sourcebook on Mary Shelleys Frankenstein
• Border traffic strategies of contemporary women writers
• Shakespeares tragic cosmos
• Women in the house of fiction post war women novelists
• mill on the Floss
• New women new novels feminism and early modernism
• Gothic literature
• sensation novel from The woman in white to The moonstone
• Desire and domestic fiction a political history of the novel
• mill on the Floss
• Routledge history of literature in English Britain and Ireland
• Charlotte Bronte
• Bearing the word language and female experience in nineteenth century womens writing
• Charles Dickens
• Olive Schreiner a biography
• Volpone
• singular anomaly women novelists of the nineteenth century
• Cambridge companion to Ben Jonson
• Shakespeares comedy of love
• Streetwalking the metropolis women the city and modernity
• No mans land the place of the woman writer in the twentieth century Sexchanges
• Jean Rhys
• other nation the poor in English novels of the 1840s and 1850s
• Victorian people in life and in literature
• Wild women in the whirlwind Afra American culture and the contemporary literary renaissance
• new woman in fiction and in fact fin de siecle feminisms
• Renaissance historicism selections from English Literary Renaissance
• Shakespeare and the loss of Eden the construction of family values in early modern culture
• Madness and sexual politics in the feminist novel studies in Bronte Woolf Lessing and Atwood
• Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination
• Over her dead body death femininity and the aesthetic
• To Herland and beyond the life and work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• English novel Smollett to Austen
• Captive imagination a casebook on The yellow wallpaper
• Sexual politics
• John Donne
• Victorian publishing and Mrs Gaskells work
• Materialist Shakespeare a history
• Proper stations class in Victorian fiction
• Dickens world
• Unstable bodies Victorian representations of sexuality and maternity
• politics of sensibility race gender and commerce in the sentimental novel
• naked city urban crime fiction in the USA
• Modern genre theory
• Joseph Andrews and Shamela
• Womens fiction between the wars mothers daughters and writing
• realist novel an introductory textbook
• Conjuring black women fiction and literary tradition
• Victorian women writers and the woman question
• Shakespeares tragic sequence
• Postmodern debates
• Farewell my lovely
• Tradition and experiment in Wordsworths Lyrical ballads 1798
• modern Gothic and literary doubles Stevenson Wilde and Wells
• In search of our mothers gardens womanist prose
• yellow wall paper and other stories
• impact of feminism in English Renaissance studies
• Gothic forms of feminine fiction
• Female stories female bodies narrative identity and representation
• western Canon the books and school of the ages
• Studying the novel
• Nightmare the birth of horror Frankenstein