A literature of their own : British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing / Elaine Showalter.

Expanded ed.

0691004765 (paper ; acid-free paper)
9780691004761 (paper ; acid-free paper)

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1999]

English

xxxiii, 347 pages ; 22 cm

823.03 S559l 1999

(OCoLC)40699877
(OCoLC)40699877

"When first published in 1977, Elaine Showalter's 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 generation of students, scholars, readers, and writers have since benefited from the twenty years of rediscovery and appreciation that A Literature of Their Own instigated." "This revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception as well as a new postscript chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women."--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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