Sister's Choice by Elaine Showalter
Do common threads connect American women writers from different eras and different backgrounds 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 , 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. This book is intended for general readers; students and teachers of women's writing. Those readers interested in women's studies and feminist criticism.
Showalter, Elaine: - Elaine Showalter, Emeritus Professor of English at Princeton University, combines scholarly expertise in English and American literature with a passion for a wide range of cultural subjects. She has written ten books, most recently The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography and A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, which was awarded the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism. Her writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, People, and Vogue.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192824172 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192824171 |
| Title | Sister's Choice |
| Author | Elaine Showalter |
| Series | Clarendon Lectures |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1994-11-17 |
| Number of pages | 210 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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