Literary Feminisms

by Ruth Robbins

It is now almost inconceivable that students of literature can pass through universities without encountering the feminist revolution in literary theory and criticism. Feminist literary theories are pluralist, borrowing from other types of theory, such as marxism or postmodernism, but they always remain woman-centered. Courses in women's writing, literature and gender, and philosophy and literature proliferate--requiring readers to reconsider many of the basic assumptions on which the study of literature was originally founded.

Genres: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Feminism

304 pages, Paperback

First published February 9, 2000

About the author

Ruth Robbins is Professor of English Literature and head of the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities. Her work has focused on the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, on autobiography, on literary theory and on particular writers such as Oscar Wilde and Arnold Bennett.

Ruth's research interests centre on the late-Victorian period in English literature, especially the literature of Decadence, and include the writings of Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons and Vernon Lee - her book Pater to Forster, 1873-1924 (2003) deals with literature written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century period. Her recent book Oscar Wilde (2011) revisits her interests in the fin de siècle; additionally she is co-author of a book on the British Short Story (with Emma Liggins and Andrew Maunder, 2010).

She also has research interests in literary theory

Reviews

[Annabel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loads of detail and thought-provoking ideas in this easy-to-read but undoubtedly academic book. It covers a huge time span of womens writing, so is perfect for a broad scope of womens writing across the centuries, but not so much if the reader is looking for specific and detailed critical material about an author. Nevertheless, the authors it does discuss are referred to through fascinating insight and in a way that intelligently connects the movement and development of female writing since the 1800s.

[Richard008 · Rating 3 out of 5]

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