Sister's Choice
Traditions and Change in American Women's Writing
Elaine Showalter
Price: £45.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-812383-5
Publication date: 26 September 1991
208 pages, 7 photos, 216x138 mm
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| Reviews |
| - '`Once again she has uncovered an extraordinary range of little-known writing, and little-known shades to those better known.'
New Statesman & Society' -
- '`The revaluation of the Gothic genre has been one of the few genuine achievements of feminist criticism and Elaine Showalter lays out a fascinating summary of psychoanalytical interpretations'
Tony Dunn, Tribune' -
- '`Elaine Showalter lays out a fascinating summary of psychoanalytical interpretations.'
Tribune' -
- ''Showalter's ultimate response to the question that begins her book is a resounding yes. The path to that conclusion is an enriching and graifying one,'
Navina Krishna Hooker. university of St Andrews. Review of English Studies' -
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| Description |
Are American women writers from different eras and different backgrounds connected by common threads in a coherent tradition? How have the relationships between women's rights, women's rites, and women's writing figured in the history of literature by women in the United States?
Drawing on a wide range of writers from Margaret Fuller to Alice Walker, Elaine Showalter argues that
post-colonial as well as feminist literary theory can help us understand the hybrid, intertextual, and changing forms of American women's writing, and the way that `women's culture' intersects with other cultural forms. Showalter looks closely at three American classics - Little Women
, The Awakening
, and The House of Mirth
- and traces the transformations in such major themes, images,
and genres of American women's writing as the American Miranda, the Female Gothic, and the patchwork quilt. Ending with a moving description of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, she shows how the women's tradition is a literary quilt that offers a new map of a changing America.
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Elaine Showalter, Avalon Professor of Humanities and English, Princeton University
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