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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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Published Papers

A literature of their own : British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing (1978) (713)
The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980 (1987) (647)
Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle (1990) (423)
Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness (1981) (408)
A Literature of Their Own (1977) (259)
The New feminist criticism : essays on women, literature, and theory (1987) (229)
Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture (1997) (177)
Hysteria Beyond Freud (1993) (156)
Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media (1998) (148)
The New Feminist Criticism (1985) (118)
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) (105)
Speaking of Gender (1989) (92)
Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism (2013) (75)
A literature of their own : from Charlotte Brontë to Doris Lessing (1982) (70)
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (2009) (64)
Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents (2005) (63)
Victorian women and insanity. (1980) (52)
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) (39)
Revels in madness: insanity in medicine and literature (2003) (37)
Women and the Literary Curriculum (1971) (34)
Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage (2001) (32)
The Death of the Lady (Novelist): Wharton's House of Mirth (1985) (31)
The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English (1999) (30)
Critical Cross-Dressing: Male Feminists and the Woman of the Year (2003) (29)
Improving the position of women in medicine (1999) (28)
Twenty Years on: "A Literature of Their Own" Revisited (1998) (28)
Florence Nightingale's Feminist Complaint: Women, Religion, and "Suggestions for Thought" (1981) (28)
Killing the Angel in the House: The Autonomy of Women Writers (1992) (26)
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) (21)
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)
The Greening of Sister George (1980) (10)
Laughing Medusa: Feminist Intellectuals at the Millennium (2000) (10)
Rethinking the Seventies: Women Writers and Violence (1981) (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)
Advertisers (1967) (6)
After Theory, the Next New Thing (2004) (6)
The Female Tradition@@@A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1978) (6)
Of Madness and Method (1986) (6)
Rivers and Sassoon: The Inscription of Male Gender Anxieties (2017) (5)
Maude . On sisterhoods ; A woman's thoughts about women (1993) (5)
: Yesterday's Woman: Domestic Realism in the English Novel. . Vineta Colby. (1975) (5)
Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy (4)
Presidential Address 1998: Regeneration (1999) (3)
IN CONTEMPORARY U. (1993) (3)
The Anatomy of Culture (1991) (3)
Better Things to Do (2000) (3)
It's still Salome (1994) (3)
The Apocalyptic Fables of H. G. Wells (1992) (3)
Women on the Verge of a Revolution: Madness and Resistance in Cristina Garcia's "Dreaming in Cuban" (2016) (3)
Advisory editors (2001) (2)
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography (2016) (2)
Scribbling Women: Short Stories By 19th-Century American Women (1997) (2)
Teaching about women (1971) (2)
American Female Gothic (1991) (2)
Little Women: The American Female Myth (1991) (2)
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) (2)
Comments on Jehlen's "Archimedes and the Paradox of Feminist Criticism" (1982) (2)
Feminist Differings: Recent Surveys of Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism (1988) (2)
Teaching in Public: A Modest Proposal (2001) (2)
The Power of Her Sympathy: The Autobiography and Journal of Catharine Maria Sedgwick@@@Scribbling Women: Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century American Women (1997) (1)
British Women Novelists@@@A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1978) (1)
Responsibilities and Realities: A Curriculum for the Eighties. (1981) (1)
A nurturing relationship: A conversation with Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, April 15,1974 (1976) (1)
VOICE AND GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION: HAYWOOD TO BURNEY (2016) (1)
The Custom of the Country: Spragg and the Art of the Deal (1995) (1)
In the age of awards (2006) (1)
The lantern-bearer (1995) (1)
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2012) (1)
: Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction. . Jenni Calder. ; The Faces of Eve: Women in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel. . Judith Fryer. (1977) (1)
Notes from London. (1959) (1)
The Awakening: Tradition and the American Female Talent (1991) (1)
The bad seed : a novel (1997) (1)
Feminist Theory and Practice, 1985 (1986) (1)
Miranda's Story (1991) (1)
A virtuoso Victorian novel AS Byatt The Children's Book (2009) (1)
Writing Textile, Making Text: Cloth and Stitch as Agency for Disorderly Text (2015) (1)
Feminists under fire (1993) (1)
Shooting the Rapids: Feminist Criticism in the Mainstream (1986) (1)
Elaine Showalter (1999) (1)
Gilbert & Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years (review) (2011) (1)
Literary Criticism (1975) (1)
A Manifesto for Gender Responsibility and Equality in Every-Day Life (2014) (1)
Boccaccio in Indiana (1998) (1)
Revising a Reputation (1988) (0)
Happy and Unhappy Women (2019) (0)
"Diving into the Wreck": A History of Our Own (1978) (0)
Midwives to the Modern (2005) (0)
Emily Post PhD (1999) (0)
The Mistress of a Family (2019) (0)
Response to Will C. Jumper (1971) (0)
Plumping for it (1997) (0)
Reviews of Books:Spiritualism and British Society between the Wars Jenny Hazelgrove (2002) (0)
I. Romans, Romances, Nouvelles, and Novels (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)
Women of the World (2019) (0)
The Question of ‘ Women ’ s Writing ’ : A ‘ Double-Edged ’ Double Bind ? (2019) (0)
Female Studies: No. 4. Teaching About Women. (1971) (0)
Notes on the Sublime Experience in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (2009) (0)
The double standard : criticism of women writers in England, 1845-1880 (1971) (0)
Foucault in America (1997) (0)
Governing talk (1998) (0)
III. Techniques of Realism in Early Fiction (2015) (0)
Female Servants 38 (2019) (0)
CHANCE AND THE SECRET LIFE: CONRAD, THACKERAY, STEVENSON (2016) (0)
Editorial board (2001) (0)
II. Purposes of the Novel (2015) (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)
Martha Vicinus, editor. A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1977. Pp. xix, 326. $15.95 (1978) (0)
Editorial board (2001) (0)
PERFORMING ( IN ) SANITY : UNDOING GENDER IN JANET FRAME (2016) (0)
The Femaiie Tradition (1991) (0)
The great white way (1997) (0)
Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture, Picador, 1997 ISBN 0-330-34670-9 (2019) (0)
Grande Hysterie as the Grand Mentor@@@Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture (1999) (0)
Meditations on memory Harriet Harvey Wood AS Byatt (2008) (0)
HYSTORIES REVISITED (2020) (0)
Introduction [to Special Issue on Rutgers' Special Collections Related to Women] (2012) (0)
Maude: Part 2nd (2019) (0)
Towards Neuroecosociality:MentalHealth in Adversity (2020) (0)
The Other Lost Generation (1991) (0)
VI. The Emergence of the Novel (2015) (0)
Austen in the snow (1993) (0)
DR JEKYLL'S CLOSET (extract) (2002) (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)
Fa ( c ) ulty Towers ? (2021) (0)
Something To Do (2019) (0)
In Brief: Social Studies (1998) (0)
To the goddess Anorexia (1994) (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)
Commentary: an inconclusive study? (1999) (0)
THE USES OF DUPLICITY: ISAK DINESEN AND QUESTIONS OF FEMINIST CRITICISM (2016) (0)
Editorial board (2002) (0)
Robert Lehman Lectures On Contemporary Art No. 3 (2004) (0)
Advisory Board (2000) (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)
V. The Individual Against Society in the Eighteenth- Century French Novel (2015) (0)
Bits and pieces (2004) (0)
A Critical study of Feminist Realism in Modern Fiction (2007) (0)
A Literature of My Own: Living with Victorian Women Writers (2003) (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)
Through the feminist looking glass (2016) (0)
"Changing Places" in Changed Times. (2008) (0)
Editorial board (2001) (0)
CONCEPT OF FEMINISM IN LITERATURE (2015) (0)
IV. Robert Challe's Les lllustres Francoises (2015) (0)
Biopsychosocial Aspects of Bereavement. Edited by S. Zisook. (Pp. 188; illustrated; £15.00.) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1988 (1988) (0)
Editorial board (2000) (0)
Editors board (2000) (0)
The publicity sheet accompanying the review copy of No Man ' s Land quotes (2008) (0)
Back Matter (1980) (0)
Root to power (2003) (0)
‘Mrs Klein’: The mother, the daughter, the thief and their critics (1990) (0)
One out of two (2003) (0)
Maude: Part 1st (2019) (0)
Pale denizens of the night (1994) (0)
: The Child Figure in English Literature. . Robert Pattison. ; Guardians and Angels: Parents and Children in Nineteenth-Century Literature. . David Grylls. (1979) (0)
BOOKS, 1975–1987 (2005) (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)

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