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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".
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Apr 19, 2024 · Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American literary critic and teacher and founder of gynocritics, a school of feminist criticism concerned with “woman as writer…with the history, themes, genres, and structures of literature by women.”
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Sep 24, 2016 · Learn about Showalter's concept of gynocriticism and her analysis of the female literary tradition in three phases: feminine, feminist and female. Explore her categories of feminist criticism: woman as reader and woman as writer.
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Professor of English, Emeritus. Email. ecshowalter@gmail.com. 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.
May 30, 1998 · Elaine Showalter: hysteria's historian. Marilynn Larkin. Published: May 30, 1998 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736 (05)77699-6. PlumX Metrics. 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.
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Elaine Showalter invented gynocriticism, a feminist critical theory and approach that focuses on the woman writer, the meaning of her text, the structure of literature written by women including its history, themes, genres. She introduced this new method of reading specific texts and its application in an essay, "Toward a Feminist Poetics" (1979).
May 15, 2009 · In A Jury of Her Peers, Elaine Showalter has produced the first comprehensive overview of the achievement of American women writers from the Puritans to the (not quite) present. She claims to...
