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1	A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx more books like this by Elaine Showalter add to wishlist In a narrative of immense scope and fascination--spanning nearly 400 years and brimming with Showalter's characteristic wit and incisive opinions--readers are introduced to more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known. see all copies from £14.86! new only from £14.86! \| first editions
2	Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing more books like this by Elaine Showalter add to wishlist When first published in 1982 A Literature of their Own quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers and the development of their fiction from the ... see all copies from £2.48! new only from £6.65! \| first editions
3	Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys more books like this by Louisa May Alcott, Elaine Showalter (Editor) add to wishlist Here, in one authoritative Library of America volume, are all three of the beloved "Little Woman books as Louisa May Alcott wrote them, with original engravings. see all copies from £15.58! new only from £18.77! \| first editions
4	Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture more books like this by Elaine Showalter add to wishlist Examining such diverse 20th-century maladies as alien abduction, satanic ritual abuse, the recovered-memory movement, and the "syndromes"--multiple personality, Gulf War, and Chronic Fatigue--Showalter argues for their interpretation as "psychological plagues," modern instances of hysteria spread through the mass media. An understanding of such ... see all copies from £2.00! new only from £7.68! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy more books like this by Jean Webster, Elaine Showalter (Editor) add to wishlist One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Websteras Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), follows the progress of Judyas former orphanage, now run by her friend ... see all copies from £6.22! new only from £6.22!
6	Sexual Anarchy: 2gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle more books like this by Elaine Showalter add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! new only from £43.70! \| first editions
7	The Female Malady: 2women, Madness, and English Culture, 1890-1980 more books like this by Elaine Showalter, James R Rothaus add to wishlist see all copies from £6.22! new only from £41.74!
8	The Female Malady more books like this by Elaine Showalter add to wishlist see all copies from £6.17! first editions
9	Teaching Literature more books like this by Elaine Showalter add to wishlist Showalter draws on her many years teaching at Princeton to provide a handbook for literature teachers, emphasizing the necessity to encourage students to think independently, to keep things open-ended, and to communicate with colleagues about teaching issues. see all copies from £15.70! new only from £16.68!
10	Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th-Century American Women more books like this by Elaine Showalter (Editor) add to wishlist Including pieces by Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as by lesser-known writers, this book offers a sample of American women's writing from the 19th century. This study edition contains both the texts and commentary upon them. see all copies from £6.24! new only from £18.70! \| first editions
11	The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English more books like this by Lorna Sage (Editor) add to wishlist Over 2000 short essays here treat Anglophobe women writers and their work, including pieces on genres such as diaries and cook books that have been brought out of academic obscurity by feminist critics. see all copies from £3.05! new only from £7.86! \| first editions
12	New Feminist Criticism more books like this by Elaine Showalter (Editor) add to wishlist Shows how feminist critics have drawn attention to the importance of sexual difference in the experience of reading and interpretation. see all copies from £1.24! signed copies \| first editions
13	Sexual anarchy : gender and culture at the fin de siècle more books like this by Elaine Showalter add to wishlist An exploration of the paralells between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries and their representations in art, literature and film, this book asks whether the approaching millenium signals a beginning or points grimly to an end, and whether the ends of centuries are merely imaginery borderlines in time, or cycles, such as the crises of the "fin ... see all copies from £6.10! new only from £7.99! \| first editions
14	Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage more books like this by Elaine Showalter add to wishlist This volume is an account of women, from the 18th century through to the 21st century, who live life on a grand scale. Elane Showalter uncovers the lives of feminist individuals, focusing on figures ranging from Mary Wollenstonecraft to Camille Paglia, and her sources as diverse as "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" and "Scream 2". She looks ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.35! \| first editions
15 view cover	Sisters Choice more books like this by Elaine Showalter add to wishlist Are American women writers from different eras and different backgrounds connected by common threads in a coherent tradition? How have the relationships between women's rights, women's rites, and women's writing figured in the history of literature by women in the United States? Drawing on a wide range of writers from Margaret Fuller to Alice ... see all copies from £4.94! new only from £35.35! \| first editions
16 view cover	Modern American Women Writers more books like this by Elaine Showalter (Editor) add to wishlist Featuring original contributions by scholars in the field of women's studies, this invaluable reference illuminates the lives and works of Maya Angelou, Kate Chopin, Joan Didion, Anne Tyler, Susan Sontag, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and others. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £11.04! \| first editions
17 view cover	Alternative Alcott by Louisa May Alcott more books like this by Louisa May Alcott, Elaine Showalter (Photographer) add to wishlist The discovery in recent years of Louisa May Alcott's pseudonymous sensation stories has made readers and scholars increasingly aware of her accomplishments beyond her most famous novel, Little Women, one of the great international best-sellers of all time. What has been recovered throws new light on the children's books and asks us to question our ... see all copies from £2.93! new only from £17.10! \| first editions
18	Christina Rossetti: 'Maude' and Dinah Mulock Craik: 'on Sisterhoods' and 'a Woman's Thoughts about Women' more books like this by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Elaine Showalter (Editor) add to wishlist Showalter's thoughtful, detailed introductory essay is a comprehensive analysis between Rosetti's novella and Craik's essays...the biographical portrait of Christina Rossetti's conflicts makes her a vivid example of the psychological and social barriers to the development of the female poets...her description of Dinah Mulock Craik stressed this ... see all copies from £4.98! new only from £7.25! \| first editions
19 view cover	Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media more books like this by Elaine Showalter add to wishlist Filled with fascinating new perspectives on a culture saturated with syndromes of every sort, "Hystories" skillfully surveys the condition of hysteria--its causes, cures, famous patients, and doctors--in the 20th century to show that hysterias are always with us, a kind of collective coping mechanism for changing times. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £16.39!
20 view cover	Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin de Si?cl? more books like this by Elaine Showalter (Editor) add to wishlist The eleven stories in The Decline of Our Neighborhood provide further proof that Robert Wexelblatt is a writer of uncommon intelligence and verve. Unusual characters in strange circumstances struggle here for meaning and vision. Glnin, a writer, suddenly finds himself president of an unnamed republic. Katy Moffit, sometime comic and smart alec, ... see all copies from £6.24! new only from £18.48! \| first editions
21	Women's Liberation and Literature more books like this by Elaine Showalter add to wishlist see all copies from £4.98! new only from £6.55! \| first editions
22 view cover	Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?': Joyce Carol Oates more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates, Elaine Showalter (Editor) add to wishlist Joyce Carol Oates's prize-winning story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her fiction: the romantic longings and limited options of adolescent women; the tensions between mothers and daughters; the sexual victimization of women; and the American obsession with violence. Inspired ... see all copies from £7.74! new only from £12.72!
23 view cover	These Modern Women: Autobiographical Essays from the Twenties Second Edition more books like this by Elaine Showalter (Editor) add to wishlist In 1926-1927, the Nation published 17 anonymous essays reflecting women's views towards men, marriage, children, and work, as well as three 'responses' from psychologists, one of them John B. Watson. Elaine Showalter identifies the authors of these essays and examines their lives in light of 1920s feminism. Writers include Inez Haynes Irwin, ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.44!
24 view cover	The female malady : women, madness and English culture 1830-1980 more books like this by Elaine Showalter add to wishlist In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about 'proper' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 years, and given mental disorder in women specifically sexual connotations. Along with vivid portraits of the men who dominated psychiatry, and ... see all copies from £4.12! new only from £8.35! \| first editions
25 view cover	Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents more books like this by Elaine Showalter add to wishlist 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. see all copies from £11.53! new only from £15.89! \| first editions

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