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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786600103321

Titolo

Problems for feminist criticism / / edited by Sally Minogue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-19524-6

0-203-08500-0

1-283-84159-2

1-136-19525-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 241 pages)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Feminist theory

Disciplina

820.9/352042

Soggetti

Feminist literary criticism

Feminist theory

English literature

Women in literature

Literature

Women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1990 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

PROBLEMS FOR FEMINIST CRITICISM; Copyright; PROBLEMS FOR FEMINIST CRITICISM; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Problems for Feminist Criticism; 1 The Talkative Woman in Shakespeare, Dickens and George Eliot; 2 Milton on Women - Yet again; 3 Gender and Class in Villette and North and South; 4 'Wooman, Lovely Wooman': Four Dickens Heroines and the Critics; 5 Lawrence's Men and Women: Complements and Opposites; 6 Prescriptions and Proscriptions: Feminist Criticism and Contemporary Poetry; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Feminist criticism has come a long way in the last twenty years. Its development has been rapid, its snowball progress picking up elements of structuralism, deconstruction and psychoanalytic criticism; just as rapidly it has been shedding its own early theories and methodologies. Now it is a critical orthodoxy with its own established canonical texts. Now is the time, then, to begin to question that orthodoxy. In Problems



for Feminist Criticism five women critics seek to do that, in a spirit of enquiry whose central point of focus is the literature for which feminist critics have off