Feminist Literary Theory -

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Editeur : John Wiley & Sons

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/12/2010

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 512

Expédition : 723

Dimensions : 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8

ISBN : 1405183136

Résumé :

Now in its third edition, Feminist Literary Theory remains the most comprehensive, single volume introduction to a vital and diverse field.

• Fully revised and updated to reflect changes in the field over the last decade
• Includes extracts from all the major critics, critical approaches and theoretical positions in contemporary feminist literary studies
• Features a new section, Writing 'Glocal', which covers feminism's dialogue with postcolonial, global and spatial studies
• Revised chapter introductions provide readers with helpful contextual information while extensive notes offer recommendations for further reading

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Biographie:

Mary Eagleton is Professor of Contemporary Women's Writing at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. She has published extensively in the field of feminist literary theory and contemporary women's writing, including Feminist Literary Criticism (1991), Working With Feminist Criticism (Wiley-Blackwell, 1996), A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003) and Figuring the Woman Author in Contemporary Fiction (2005). She is founding Co-editor of the journal, Contemporary Women's Writing.

Sommaire:

Preface xii

Acknowledgments xvi

1 Finding a Female Tradition

Introduction 1

Extracts from:

A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf 9

A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bront? to Lessing
Elaine Showalter 11

'Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence'
Adrienne Rich 15

Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory
Chris Weedon 19

'The Rise of Black Feminist Literary Studies'
Ann Ducille 21

'Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon: A Case Study from the Twenties'
Paul Lauter 26

'Telling Feminist Stories'
Clare Hemmings 33

Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodernist Culture
Rita Felski 37

'Happy Families? Feminist Reproduction and Matrilineal Thought'
Linda R. Williams 41

Literary Relations: Kinship and the Canon
Jane Spencer 45

'Parables and Politics: Feminist Criticism in 1986'
Nancy K. Miller 47

'What Women's Eyes See'
Viviane Forrester 50

'Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy'
Shoshana Felman 51

Writing Women's Literary History
Margaret J. M. Ezell 52

The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Betty A. Schellenberg 56

2 Women and Literary Production

Introduction 61

Extracts from:

A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf 70

'Professions for Women'
Virginia Woolf 75

Silences
Tillie Olsen 77

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar 82

'Writing Like a Woman: A Question of Politics'
Terry Lovell 90

The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen
Jane Spencer 93

'Emily Bront? in the Hands of Male Critics'
Carol Ohmann 95

'Toward a Black Feminist Criticism'
Barbara Smith 98

'Christina Rossetti: Diary of a Feminist Reading'
Isobel Armstrong 103

'Conversations'
H?l?ne Cixous Et Al. 106

'Mapping Contemporary Women's Fiction after Bourdieu'
Mary Eagleton 110

Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain
Claire Squires 115

The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins
Graham Huggan 119

The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730
Paula Mcdowell 123

'Black Woman Talk'
Black Woman Talk Collective 126

'Introduction', Let It be Told: Essays by Black Women in Britain
?Lauretta Ngcobo 127

Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics
Simone Murray 129

'Pushed to the Margins: The Slow Death and Possible Rebirth of the Feminist Bookstore'
Kathryn Mcgrath 131

3 Gender and Genre

Introduction 135

A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf 143

Literary Women
Ellen Moers 145

'Femininity, Narrative and Psychoanalysis'
Juliet Mitchell 147

Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
Nancy Armstrong 151

'Towards a Feminist Narratology'
Susan S. Lanser 154

Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives
Marilyn R. Farwell 158

Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms
Robyn R. Warhol 161

'Introduction', Aurora Leigh and Other P...