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Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing. The Clarendon Lectures 1989

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Elaine Showalter

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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.

Author Biography:

Elaine Showalter is Avalon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of A Literature of Their Won, and the editor of The New Feminist Criticism.

Release date NZ

September 26th, 1991

Author

Elaine Showalter

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

7 halftones

Pages

208

Dimensions

140x223x17

ISBN-13

9780198123835

Product ID

2245833

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