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Twenty years on: A literature of their own revisited

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From: Novel
Date: 19980701
Author:Showalter, Elaine

In 1965, when I began to do research for my Ph.D. dissertation on Victorian women writers, feminist criticism did not exist. Virginia Woolf's letters and diaries were scattered and unpublished . Scholars still called Elizabeth Gaskell "Mrs." and Frances Burney "Fanny." No one edited women's studies journals, or compiled bibliographies of women's writing. At the University of California at Davis, where I was studying, "Theory" was not even a shadow on the sunny horizon, and the New Criticism, F.R. Leavis, Northrop Frye, and seven kinds of ambiguity marked the boundaries of my critical ...

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