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Elaine Showalter

Literature

#74

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#261

Historical Rank

#34

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Literary Criticism

#4

World Rank

#10

Historical Rank

#3

USA Rank

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Elaine Showalter's Degrees

PhD English University of California, Davis
Masters English Brandeis University
Bachelors English Bryn Mawr College

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According to Wikipedia, Elaine Showalter 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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Elaine Showalter's Published Works

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The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980 (1987) (838)
A literature of their own : British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing (1978) (723)
Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle (1990) (421)
Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness (1981) (420)
A Literature of Their Own (1977) (270)
The New feminist criticism : essays on women, literature, and theory (1987) (229)
Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture (1997) (176)
Hysteria Beyond Freud (1993) (159)
Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media (1998) (152)
The New Feminist Criticism (1985) (119)
Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction@@@Charlotte Bronte: The Self Conceived@@@A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1977) (118)
Sister's choice : tradition and change in American women's writing (1992) (106)
Speaking of Gender (1989) (96)
Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism (2013) (77)
A literature of their own : from Charlotte Brontë to Doris Lessing (1982) (72)
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (2009) (65)
Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents (2005) (65)
Victorian women and insanity. (1980) (57)
Daughters of decadence : women writers of the Fin-de-Siècle (1993) (42)
Victorian women and menstruation. (1970) (40)
Women's Time, Women's Space: Writing the History of Feminist Criticism (1984) (40)
Revels in madness: insanity in medicine and literature (2003) (38)
Women and the Literary Curriculum (1971) (35)
The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English (1999) (32)
Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage (2001) (32)
The Death of the Lady (Novelist): Wharton's House of Mirth (1985) (31)
Critical Cross-Dressing: Male Feminists and the Woman of the Year (2003) (30)
Florence Nightingale's Feminist Complaint: Women, Religion, and "Suggestions for Thought" (1981) (28)
Twenty Years on: "A Literature of Their Own" Revisited (1998) (28)
Improving the position of women in medicine (1999) (28)
Killing the Angel in the House: The Autonomy of Women Writers (1992) (27)
Dinah Mulock Craik and the Tactics of Sentiment: A Case Study in Victorian Female Authorship (1975) (25)
The Unmanning of the Mayor of Casterbridge (1979) (24)
New Essays on the Awakening: Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book (1988) (22)
ROBERT AUDLEY'S SECRET: MALE HOMOSOCIAL DESIRE IN "LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET" (2016) (19)
Guilt, Authority, and the Shadows of Little Dorrit (1979) (17)
Women's liberation and literature (1971) (15)
These modern women : autobiographical essays from the twenties (1978) (13)
Modern American Women Writers (1993) (12)
Laughing Medusa: Feminist Intellectuals at the Millennium (2000) (10)
The Greening of Sister George (1980) (10)
Rethinking the Seventies: Women Writers and Violence (1981) (9)
Of Madness and Method (1986) (9)
Sister's choice (1991) (8)
A Criticism of Our Own (1989) (8)
Teaching medical students how to write well (2000) (7)
Miranda and Cassandra: The Discourse of the Feminist Intellectual (1987) (7)
The Female Tradition@@@A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1978) (6)
After Theory, the Next New Thing (2004) (6)
Advertisers (1967) (6)
: Yesterday's Woman: Domestic Realism in the English Novel. . Vineta Colby. (1975) (5)
Rivers and Sassoon: The Inscription of Male Gender Anxieties (2017) (5)
Maude . On sisterhoods ; A woman's thoughts about women (1993) (5)
Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy (4)
The Anatomy of Culture (1991) (4)
IN CONTEMPORARY U. (1993) (3)
Presidential Address 1998: Regeneration (1999) (3)
Better Things to Do (2000) (3)
Scribbling Women: Short Stories By 19th-Century American Women (1997) (3)
The Apocalyptic Fables of H. G. Wells (1992) (3)
It's still Salome (1994) (3)
Women on the Verge of a Revolution: Madness and Resistance in Cristina Garcia's "Dreaming in Cuban" (2016) (3)
American Female Gothic (1991) (2)
Advisory editors (2001) (2)
Little Women: The American Female Myth (1991) (2)
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) (2)
Teaching in Public: A Modest Proposal (2001) (2)
Feminist Differings: Recent Surveys of Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism (1988) (2)
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography (2016) (2)
Teaching about women (1971) (2)
Comments on Jehlen's "Archimedes and the Paradox of Feminist Criticism" (1982) (2)
Responsibilities and Realities: A Curriculum for the Eighties. (1981) (1)
Writing Textile, Making Text: Cloth and Stitch as Agency for Disorderly Text (2015) (1)
A nurturing relationship: A conversation with Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, April 15,1974 (1976) (1)
British Women Novelists@@@A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1978) (1)
VOICE AND GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION: HAYWOOD TO BURNEY (2016) (1)
: Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction. . Jenni Calder. ; The Faces of Eve: Women in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel. . Judith Fryer. (1977) (1)
Shooting the Rapids: Feminist Criticism in the Mainstream (1986) (1)
Literary Criticism (1975) (1)
The Custom of the Country: Spragg and the Art of the Deal (1995) (1)
Feminist Theory and Practice, 1985 (1986) (1)
In the age of awards (2006) (1)
Boccaccio in Indiana (1998) (1)
Gilbert & Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years (review) (2011) (1)
Miranda's Story (1991) (1)
Notes from London. (1959) (1)
A Manifesto for Gender Responsibility and Equality in Every-Day Life (2014) (1)
The Awakening: Tradition and the American Female Talent (1991) (1)
The lantern-bearer (1995) (1)
Elaine Showalter (1999) (1)
The Power of Her Sympathy: The Autobiography and Journal of Catharine Maria Sedgwick@@@Scribbling Women: Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century American Women (1997) (1)
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2012) (1)
The bad seed : a novel (1997) (1)
Feminists under fire (1993) (1)
A virtuoso Victorian novel AS Byatt The Children's Book (2009) (1)
THE USES OF DUPLICITY: ISAK DINESEN AND QUESTIONS OF FEMINIST CRITICISM (2016) (0)
Reviews of Books:Spiritualism and British Society between the Wars Jenny Hazelgrove (2002) (0)
Female Servants 38 (2019) (0)
Something To Do (2019) (0)
To the goddess Anorexia (1994) (0)
Bits and pieces (2004) (0)
A Literature of My Own: Living with Victorian Women Writers (2003) (0)
Foucault in America (1997) (0)
Editorial board (2001) (0)
The great white way (1997) (0)
Women of the World (2019) (0)
Plumping for it (1997) (0)
Root to power (2003) (0)
II. Purposes of the Novel (2015) (0)
Advisory Board (2000) (0)
Revising a Reputation (1988) (0)
: The Child Figure in English Literature. . Robert Pattison. ; Guardians and Angels: Parents and Children in Nineteenth-Century Literature. . David Grylls. (1979) (0)
Midwives to the Modern (2005) (0)
Editorial board (2002) (0)
Martha Vicinus, editor. A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1977. Pp. xix, 326. $15.95 (1978) (0)
Widows, Volumes 1 and 2. Edited by H. Znaniecka Lopata. (Vol. 1, pp. 258; illustrated; $37.95 hb, $15.95 pb.) (Vol. 2, pp. 312; illustrated; $40.00 hb, $16.95 pb.) Duke University Press: Durham, USA. 1987 (1988) (0)
Maude: Part 1st (2019) (0)
Introduction [to Special Issue on Rutgers' Special Collections Related to Women] (2012) (0)
Commentary: an inconclusive study? (1999) (0)
Through the feminist looking glass (2016) (0)
Austen in the snow (1993) (0)
Editorial board (2001) (0)
BOOKS, 1975–1987 (2005) (0)
In Brief: Social Studies (1998) (0)
"Changing Places" in Changed Times. (2008) (0)
The Question of ‘ Women ’ s Writing ’ : A ‘ Double-Edged ’ Double Bind ? (2019) (0)
Bereavement and Health. By W. Stroebe and M. S. Stroebe. (Pp. 288; illustrated; £27.50 hb, £9.95 pb.) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1987 (1988) (0)
Editorial board (2001) (0)
PERFORMING ( IN ) SANITY : UNDOING GENDER IN JANET FRAME (2016) (0)
The double standard : criticism of women writers in England, 1845-1880 (1971) (0)
HYSTORIES REVISITED (2020) (0)
Grande Hysterie as the Grand Mentor@@@Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture (1999) (0)
Robert Lehman Lectures On Contemporary Art No. 3 (2004) (0)
THE FALL OF THE AMERICAN ADAM AND EVE: DEMYTHOLOGISING FEMALE GENDER CONSTRUCTIONS IN JEFFREY EUGENIDES’ THE VIRGIN SUICIDES AND MARILYNNE ROBINSON’S HOUSEKEEPING (2018) (0)
Editors board (2000) (0)
One out of two (2003) (0)
Governing talk (1998) (0)
Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women. Mary HaysLetters for Literary Ladies. Maria EdgeworthLetters on Education. Catherine MacaulayThe Unsex'd Females. Richard PolwheleThe Female Advocate. Mary Ann Radcliffe (1978) (0)
Crawford prefers to see the relationship of science and empire as one of “coproduction.” This volume differs in approach from standard accounts of the history of cinchona (2016) (0)
III. Techniques of Realism in Early Fiction (2015) (0)
A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON THE PORTRAYAL OF THE VICTORIAN LADY AND THE AMERICAN “NEW WOMAN” AS VICTIMS OF PATRIARCHAL CULTURE: JANE EYRE, WUTHERING HEIGHTS AND THE AWAKENING (2015) (0)
A Critical study of Feminist Realism in Modern Fiction (2007) (0)
Pale denizens of the night (1994) (0)
I. Romans, Romances, Nouvelles, and Novels (2015) (0)
The Mistress of a Family (2019) (0)
Towards Neuroecosociality:MentalHealth in Adversity (2020) (0)
"Diving into the Wreck": A History of Our Own (1978) (0)
IV. Robert Challe's Les lllustres Francoises (2015) (0)
Happy and Unhappy Women (2019) (0)
Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture, Picador, 1997 ISBN 0-330-34670-9 (2019) (0)
VI. The Emergence of the Novel (2015) (0)
womanhood of Africa unravels a changing scenario in the development of their social outlook. Historically the woman of Africa underwent a number of psychological transitions as epoch-marking (2013) (0)
Editorial board (2000) (0)
Notes on the Sublime Experience in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (2009) (0)
Meditations on memory Harriet Harvey Wood AS Byatt (2008) (0)
The Femaiie Tradition (1991) (0)
‘Mrs Klein’: The mother, the daughter, the thief and their critics (1990) (0)
CONCEPT OF FEMINISM IN LITERATURE (2015) (0)
Back Matter (1980) (0)
The publicity sheet accompanying the review copy of No Man ' s Land quotes (2008) (0)
Maude: Part 2nd (2019) (0)
Emily Post PhD (1999) (0)
Biopsychosocial Aspects of Bereavement. Edited by S. Zisook. (Pp. 188; illustrated; £15.00.) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1988 (1988) (0)
DR JEKYLL'S CLOSET (extract) (2002) (0)
CHANCE AND THE SECRET LIFE: CONRAD, THACKERAY, STEVENSON (2016) (0)
The Other Lost Generation (1991) (0)
Response to Will C. Jumper (1971) (0)
Female Studies: No. 4. Teaching About Women. (1971) (0)
Fa ( c ) ulty Towers ? (2021) (0)
V. The Individual Against Society in the Eighteenth- Century French Novel (2015) (0)

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