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A History of Feminist Literary Criticism

A History of Feminist Literary Criticism

Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Site web de la maison d'édition)


Gill PLAIN et Susan SELLERS (dir.), A History of Feminist Literary Criticism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 364 p.
ISBN-13 9780521852555


RÉSUMÉ

Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature,fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting newagendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history offeminist literary criticism, leading scholars chart the development ofthe practice from the middle ages to the present. The first section ofthe book explores protofeminist thought from the middle ages onwards,and analyses the work of pioneers such as Wollstonecraft and Woolf. Thesecond section examines the rise of second wave feminism and maps itsinterventions across the twentieth century. A final section examinesthe impact of postmodernism on feminist thought and practice. This bookoffers a comprehensive guide to the history and development of feministliterary criticism and a lively reassessment of the main issues andauthors in the field. It is essential reading for all students andscholars of feminist writing and literary criticism.


TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Introduction Gill Plain and Susan Sellers; Part I. Pioneers andProtofeminism: Introduction Gill Plain; 1. Medieval feminist criticismCarolyn Dinshaw; 2. Feminist criticism in the Renaissance andseventeenth century Helen Wilcox; 3. Mary Wollstonecraft and her legacySusan Manly; 4. The feminist criticism of Virginia Woolf Jane Goldman;5. Simone de Beauvoir and the demystification of woman ElizabethFallaize; Part II. Creating a Feminist Literary Criticism: IntroductionGill Plain and Susan Sellers; 6. Literary representations of women MaryEagleton; 7. A history of women's writing Helen Carr; 8. Autobiographyand personal criticism Linda Anderson; 9. Black feminist criticismArlene Keizer; 10. Lesbian feminist criticism Caroline Gonda; 11. Menin feminism Calvin Thomas; Part III. Poststructuralism and Beyond:Introduction Gill Plain and Susan Sellers; 12. Feminist criticism andpoststructuralism Claire Colebrook; 13. Feminist criticism andpsychoanalysis Madelon Sprengnether; 14. French feminist criticism andwriting the body Judith Still; 15. Postcolonial feminist criticismChris Weedon; 16. Feminist criticism and queer theory Heather Love; 17.Feminist criticism and technologies of the body Stacy Gillis;Postscript: flaming feminism? Susan Gubar; Bibliography.