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Elaine Showalter

Born

in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

January 21, 1941

Genre

Feminism, History, Literary Criticism

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Elaine Showalter is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She is one of the founders of feminist literary criticism in United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics.

She is well known and respected in both academic and popular cultural fields. She has written and edited numerous books and articles focussed on a variety of subjects, from feminist literary criticism to fashion, sometimes sparking widespread controversy, especially with her work on illnesses. Showalter has been a television critic for People magazine and a commentator on BBC radio and television.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 59,401 ratings · 6,013 reviews · 79 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980 4.17 avg rating — 945 ratings — published 1985 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists From Brontë to Lessing 4.04 avg rating — 610 ratings — published 1976 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe 3.76 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 2016 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle 3.83 avg rating — 396 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx 4.10 avg rating — 328 ratings — published 2009 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle 4.16 avg rating — 259 ratings — published 1990 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teaching Literature 3.77 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hystories 3.57 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 1997 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vintage Book of American Women Writers 4.16 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature, Theory 3.91 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1985 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Now we are free to come and go as we please, not in sorrow but in laughter.”
― Elaine Showalter, A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists From Brontë to Lessing

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“Devoid of the poetry of madness.”
― Elaine Showalter, The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980

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“Yet when women are spoken for but do not speak for themselves, such dramas of liberation become only the opening scenes of the next drama of confinement. Until women break free for themselves, the chains that make madness a female malady, like Blake's "mind forged manacles," will simply forge themselves anew.”
― Elaine Showalter

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