Table of Contents for Showalter, E.: A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing.

A Literature of Their Own:
British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing
Elaine Showalter

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Acknowledgments to the Expanded Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Twenty Years On: A Literature of Their Own Revisited
I The Female Tradition 3
II The Feminine Novelists and the Will to Write 37
III The Double Critical Standard and the Feminine Novel 73
IV Feminine Heroines: Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot 100
V Feminine Heroes: The Woman's Man 133
VI Subverting the Feminine Novel: Sensationalism and Feminine Protest 153
VII The Feminist Novelists 182
VIII Women Writers and the Suffrage Movement 216
IX The Female Aesthetic 240
X Virginia Woolf and the Flight into Androgyny 263
XI Beyond the Female Aesthetic: Contemporary Women Novelists 298
XII Laughing Medusa 320
Index 337