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Informationen zum Autor Elaine Showalter is a teacher, author, and critic whose books include A Jury of Her Peers: American Woman Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx; A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing; The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and Culture in England, 1830-1908; Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media; and Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage. A past president of the Modern Language Association, she is Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University. Klappentext Elaine Showalter is a teacher, author, and critic whose books include A Jury of Her Peers: American Woman Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx; A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing; The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and Culture in England, 1830-1908; Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media; and Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage. A past president of the Modern Language Association, she is Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University. Zusammenfassung In Faculty Towers ! Showalter takes a personal look at the ways novels about the academy have charted changes in the university and society since 1950. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: What I Read and What I Read For 1. The Fifties: Ivory Towers 2. The Sixties: Tribal Towers 3. The Seventies: Glass Towers 4. The Eighties: Feminist Towers 5. The Nineties: Tenured Towers 6. Into the Twenty-First Century: Tragic Towers Conclusion Notes Bibliography of Academic Novels Acknowledgments
