| Description |
viii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The rise of gender--Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading--Gender theory and the Yale School--Gender and Afro-Americanist literary theory and criticism--Creativity and the childbirth metaphor: gender difference in literary discourse--The masculine mode--Androgyny, mimesis, and the marriage of the boy heroine on the English renaissance stage--The politics of Emerson's man-making words--The female king: Tennyson's Arthurian apocalypse--Cage aux folles: sensation and gender in Wilkie Collin's The Woman in White--"Kiss me with those red lips": gender and inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula--The best in the closet: James annd the writing of homosexual panic--Virile womanhood: Olive Schreiner's narratives of a master race--Soldier's heart: literary men, literary women, and the Great War--Writing war poetry like a woman |
| Analysis |
English literature |
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English literature - Critical studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Authorship -- Sex differences.
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English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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| Author |
Showalter, Elaine.
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| LC no. |
88020936 |
| ISBN |
0415900263 |
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0415900271 (paperback) |
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