Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory

Zusatztext "The signed entries are generously full...Offers a solid overview of the field as of the mid-1990s." -- Literary Research Guide"Schools with strong women's studies programs will find this an invaluable source for understanding the foundations of feminist literary theory." -- he Bookwatch"An essential complement to...surveys of literary theory." -- Rettig on Reference"The range of topics covered in this single volume is impressive. Overall! the Encyclopedia would make a good addition to any reference collection." -- Feminist Collections Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at Boston College. She is the author of Their Father' s Daughters: Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth and Patriarchal Complicity; Consuming Subjects: British Women and Consumer Culture 1720-l820; and is co-editor of Refiguring the Father: New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy. Klappentext First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung An encyclopedia citing the major figures and theoretical concepts in feminism since the 1970s in the US and Great Britain. The entries are concise essays documenting the subject's significance to feminist literary studies in general, often pointing toward how the feminist perspective has affected p Inhaltsverzeichnis A sampling of the coverage: Abortion * Adolescence * Anorexia * Archetypal Criticism * Birth * Blues * British Feminism * Chicana Theory * Cyborg Feminism * Domesticity * Essentialism * Fashion * Female Eunuch * First Wave Feminists * Fuller, Margaret * Gaze * Greer, Germaine * Gynocritics * Homosociality * Images of Women * Lessing, Doris * Matrophobia * Men in Feminism * New Historicism * Nin, Anais * Phallic Mother * Satire * Semiotics * Sorophobia * Stein, Gertrude * Woolf, Virginia...

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• Authors: Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace, Kowaleski-Walla, Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth (Boston College Kowaleski-Wallace
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace (Editor), Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace (Editor), Kowaleski-Wallace Elizabeth (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.1996
• EAN: 9780815308249
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-0824-9
• No. of pages: 466
• Series: Garland Reference Library of t
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Reference works, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary theory, Feminism and feminist theory