Elaine Showalter
Författare till A Literature of Their Own: From Charlotte Bronte to Doris Lessing
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In 1977, Showalter published A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing. It was one of the most influential works in feminist criticism, as it sought to establish a distinctive tradition for women writers. In later essays, Showalter helped to develop a clearly visa mer articulated feminist theory with two major branches: the special study of works by women and the study of all literature from a feminist perspective. In all of her recent writing, Showalter has sought to illuminate a "cultural model of female writing," distinguishable from male models and theories. Her role as editor bringing together key contemporary feminist criticism has been extremely influential on modern literary study. (Bowker Author Biography) Elaine Showalter is chairperson of the department of English at Princeton University & the author of "A Literature of Their Own" & "Sexual Anarchy". A frequent contributor & book reviewer for American magazines & British newspapers, including the "London Times Literary Supplement", she also has written television reviews for "People". Showalter lives in Princeton, New Jersey. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Verk av Elaine Showalter
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (2009) 346 exemplar
Sister's Choice: Traditions and Change in American Women's Writing (Clarendon Lectures) (1991) 71 exemplar
Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th-Century American Women (1997) — Selected and introduced by — 49 exemplar
Showalter, Elaine Archive 1 exemplar
Feminist criticism in the wilderness 1 exemplar
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 915 exemplar
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 843 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Showalter, Elaine
- Andra namn
- Cottler, Elaine (birth name)
- Födelsedag
- 1941-01-21
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Washington, DC, USA
London, England, UK - Utbildning
- Bryn Mawr College (BA | 1962)
Brandeis University (MA | 1964)
University of California, Davis (Ph.D | 1970) - Yrken
- professor
literary critic - Relationer
- Showalter, English (husband)
Showalter, Michael (son) - Organisationer
- Princeton University
Rutgers University
Modern Language Association - Priser och utmärkelser
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism (2012) - Kort biografi
- Elaine Showalter was born on January 21, 1941, in Boston, Massachusetts. She studied English at Bryn Mawr College (B.A., 1962), Brandeis University (M.A., 1964), and the University of California, Davis (Ph.D., 1970). She turned her doctoral thesis into her first book, "A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing" (1977), a study in which she created a critical framework for analyzing literature by women.
Showalter joined the faculty of Douglass College, the women's division of Rutgers University, in 1969, where she developed women's studies courses and began editing and contributing articles to books and periodicals about women's literature. She later taught at Rutgers and Princeton University and has been a television critic for People magazine and a commentator on BBC radio and television. Showalter specializes in Victorian literature and the Fin-de-siècle and often writes on madness and hysteria in literature, specifically in women's writing and in the portrayal of female characters. She is the founder of gynocriticism – "a female framework for the analysis of women's literature."
Showalter retired from Princeton University in 2003. She now divides her time between Washington, D.C. and London, where she was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2012, she also received an honorary degree from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for "A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx" (2009).
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