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A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing

World Literature Today· 1978-01-01· article· 255 citationsclosed

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Abstract

Acknowledgments to the Expanded EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Twenty Years On: A Literature of Their Own RevisitedIThe Female Tradition3IIThe Feminine Novelists and the Will to Write37IIIThe Double Critical Standard and the Feminine Novel73IVFeminine Heroines: Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot100VFeminine Heroes: The Woman's Man133VISubverting the Feminine Novel: Sensationalism and Feminine Protest153VIIThe Feminist Novelists182VIIIWomen Writers and the Suffrage Movement216IXThe Female Aesthetic240XVirginia Woolf and the Flight into Androgyny263XIBeyond the Female Aesthetic: Contemporary Women Novelists298XIILaughing Medusa320Index337

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Daniel J. Cahill, Elaine Showalter (1978). A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing. World Literature Today. https://doi.org/10.2307/40134020

@article{j1978a,
  title  = {A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing},
  author = {Cahill, Daniel J. and Showalter, Elaine},
  year   = {1978},
  journal = {World Literature Today},
  doi    = {10.2307/40134020}
}

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