| Description |
viii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Tthe rise of gender / E. Showalter -- Reading ourselves: Toward a feminist theory of reading / P. P. Schweickart -- Gender theory and the Yale school / B. Johnson -- Gender and Afro-Americanist literary theory and criticism / V. Smith -- Creativity and the childbirth metaphor: gender difference in literary discourse / S. S. Friedman -- The masculine mode / P. Schwenger -- Androgyny, mimesis, and the marriage of the boy heroine on the English Renaissance stage / P. Rackin -- The politics of Emerson's man-making words / D. Leverenz -- The female king: Tennyson's Authurian apocalypse / E. L. Gilbert -- Cage aux folles: Sensation and gender in Wilkie Collins's The woman in white / D. A. Miller -- "Kiss me with those red lips": Gender and inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula / C. Craft -- The beast in the closet: James and the writing of homosexual panic / E. K. Sedgwick -- Virile womanhood: Olive Schreiner's narratives of a master race / C. L. Barash -- Soldier's heart: Literary men, literary women, and the Great War / S. M. Gilbert -- Writing war poetry like a woman / S. Schweik. |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
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Feminism and literature.
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Feminism and literature. |
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English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature. |
| Added Author |
Showalter, Elaine.
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| ISBN |
0415900263 : $29.95 |
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0415900271 paperback $12.95 |
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