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Speaking of gender / edited by Elaine Showalter.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Routledge, 1989.Description: viii, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415900263
  • 0415900271 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820/.9/352042 19
LOC classification:
  • PR408.S49 S64 1989
  • PR408.S49 S64 1989
Other classification:
  • 18.05
Contents:
The rise of gender--Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading--Gender theory and the Yale School--Gender and Afro-Americanist literary theory and criticism--Creativity and the childbirth metaphor: gender difference in literary discourse--The masculine mode--Androgyny, mimesis, and the marriage of the boy heroine on the English renaissance stage--The politics of Emerson's man-making words--The female king: Tennyson's Arthurian apocalypse--Cage aux folles: sensation and gender in Wilkie Collin's The Woman in White--"Kiss me with those red lips": gender and inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula--The best in the closet: James annd the writing of homosexual panic--Virile womanhood: Olive Schreiner's narratives of a master race--Soldier's heart: literary men, literary women, and the Great War--Writing war poetry like a woman.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 820.935 SHO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 66530

Includes bibliographical references.

The rise of gender--Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading--Gender theory and the Yale School--Gender and Afro-Americanist literary theory and criticism--Creativity and the childbirth metaphor: gender difference in literary discourse--The masculine mode--Androgyny, mimesis, and the marriage of the boy heroine on the English renaissance stage--The politics of Emerson's man-making words--The female king: Tennyson's Arthurian apocalypse--Cage aux folles: sensation and gender in Wilkie Collin's The Woman in White--"Kiss me with those red lips": gender and inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula--The best in the closet: James annd the writing of homosexual panic--Virile womanhood: Olive Schreiner's narratives of a master race--Soldier's heart: literary men, literary women, and the Great War--Writing war poetry like a woman.

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