1st Edition

Problems for Feminist Criticism (RLE Feminist Theory)

Edited By Sally Minogue Copyright 2013
241 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

241 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Acknowledgements.  Introduction: Problems for feminist criticism Sally Minogue.  1. The talkative woman in Shakespeare, Dickens and George Eliot Barbara Hardy  2. Milton on women – yet again Barbara K. Lewalski  3. Gender and class in Villette and North and South Sally Minogue  4. ‘Wooman, lovely wooman’: four Dickens heroines and the critics Sandra Hopkins  5. Lawrence’s men and women: complements and opposites Mara Kalnins  6. Prescriptions and proscriptions: feminist criticism and contemporary poetry Sally Minogue.  Index.

Biography

Sally Minogue