Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th-Century American Women

Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th-Century American Women - Paperback

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Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th-Century American Women

Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th-Century American Women - Paperback

by Elaine Showalter
$76.86
Sale price  $76.86 Regular price 

Book Overview

by Elaine Showalter (Author)

With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, Inventing Herself is an expansive and timely exploration of three centuries of feminist intellectuals, each of whom possesses a boundless determination to alter the world by boldly experiencing love, achievement, and fame on a grand scale. Focusing on paradigmatic figures ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret Fuller to Germaine Greer and Susan Sontag, preeminent scholar Elaine Showalter uncovers common themes and patterns of women's lives across the centuries and discovers the feminist intellectual tradition they embodied. The author brilliantly illuminates the contributions of Eleanor Marx, Zora Neale Hurston, Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead, and many more.

Showalter, a highly regarded critic known for her provocative and strongly held opinions, has here established a compelling new Who's Who of women's thought. Certain to spark controversy, the omission of such feminist perennials as Gloria Steinem, Susan B. Anthony, Robin Morgan, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Virginia Woolf will surprise and shock the conventional wisdom.

Back Jacket

Short Stories By 19th-Century American Women. These tales of remarkable and of ordinary lives in nineteeth-century America are told through women's voices that call out from the kitchen hearth, the solitary room, the prison cell.

Author Biography

Elaine Showalter is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She is the author and editor of many books on women's writing, including Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing.

Number of Pages: 560
Dimensions: 1.21 x 9.2 x 6.18 IN
Publication Date: January 01, 1997
ISBN9780813523934
Author Elaine Showalter
PublisherRutgers University Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 1997
LanguageENG- English
Pages560
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter, a professor emerita at Princeton University, is the author of numerous books, including the groundbreaking A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing. A frequent radio and TV commentator in the United Kingdom, she has chaired the Man Booker International prize jury and judged the National Book Awards and the Orange Prize. She divides her time between Washington, D.C., and London.

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