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Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She influenced feminist literary criticism in the United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of "women as writers".
From 1970 on, my feminist activism was primarily focused on women and higher education, and on my work on women writers. My first book, A Literature of their Own (1977) was a re-reading of British women’s literature in the 19th and early 20th century from a feminist perspective.
Elaine is currently working on a biography of Julia Ward Howe to be published by Simon & Schuster. Since retiring in 2003, Elaine Showalter has been dividing her time between Washington, D.C. and London, where she was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Of Literature.
'Toward a Feminist Poetics' is a groundbreaking essay by Elaine Showalter. The essay was first presented in 1978 as an introductory lecture on the first series on literature and women at University of Oxford.
One of America's foremost academic literary scholars, Showalter is renowned for her pioneering feminist studies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century female authors and her...
Elaine Showalter: hysteria's historian. When medical historian Elaine Showalter went on tour with her 1997 book Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media, novelist Joyce Carol Oates, a close friend and colleague, was worried.
ELAINE SHOWALTER (ed.), The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory. New York, Pantheon Books 1985, London, Virago 1986. The title of this volume of essays recalls another: New French Feminisms, edited Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron, and published in 1981.
