Feminist Literary Criticism (Longman Critical Readers) - Hardcover

This series aims to take full account of contemporary literary theory, providing collections of key modern readings of major authors, genres and critical approaches. Prefaced by an editorial introduction, individual volumes in the series offer the student a guide to theoretically-informed critical work on subjects from Chaucer to the present. Mary Eagleton's introduction to "Feminist Literary Criticism" is structured as a series of dialogues between pairs of essays. She illuminates the work of a range of critics, including Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett and the French feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of discourse. It also provides an overview of the developments in feminist literary criticism for readers who are familiar or unfamiliar with feminist thought and covers all the major debates withi literary feminism including "male feminism".