A literature of their own
Subtitle: British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing
By: Elaine Showalter.
Edition: Expanded Edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.; Women novelists, English -- Biography.
Description: When first published in 1977, Elaine Showalter's A Literature of Their Own quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers in England. A generation of students, scholars, readers, and writers have since benefited from the twenty years of rediscovery and appreciation that A Literature of Their Own instigated.

This revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception as well as a new postscript chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.