{"product_id":"the-new-feminist-criticism-essays-on-women-literature-and-theory-edited-by-elaine-showalter","title":"'The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory' edited by Elaine Showalter","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"635\"\u003eFew anthologies have done more to establish feminist literary criticism as a field in its own right.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"635\"\u003eFirst published in 1985, Elaine Showalter's landmark collection gathers essays that challenged not simply which books were being read, but how literature itself was being interpreted. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"635\"\u003e'Essays by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Annette Kolodny, Rosalind Coward, Carolyn Heilbrun, Rachel Blau DuPlessis and others sit alongside foundational work by Nina Baym and Elaine Showalter herself. Across the volume run debates that remain alive today: the relationship between politics and aesthetics, whether there exists a specifically female literary tradition, how gender shapes narrative form, and what it means to read \"against\" inherited critical conventions. It is not a unified manifesto but a conversation between competing positions, making it as valuable historically as it is theoretically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1318\" data-end=\"1745\"\u003eWhile many of its arguments have since been revised, criticised or expanded, \u003cem data-start=\"1395\" data-end=\"1423\"\u003eThe New Feminist Criticism\u003c\/em\u003e remains one of the essential documents for understanding the development of literary studies in the late twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1772\" data-end=\"1833\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVirago Press, 1989 reprint (first published 1986). Paperback. Very good condition. Light rubbing and edge wear to wraps with faint creasing to corners. Binding is firm and pages are clean throughout.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45842930761811,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-20T091014.913.png?v=1784502635","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-new-feminist-criticism-essays-on-women-literature-and-theory-edited-by-elaine-showalter","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}