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Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She influenced feminist literary criticism in the United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of "women as writers".
Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American literary critic and teacher and founder of gynocritics, a school of feminist criticism concerned with “woman as writer…with the history, themes, genres, and structures of literature by women.”
Sep 24, 2016 · Elaine Showalter is an influential American critic famous for her conceptualization of gynocriticism, which is a woman-centric approach to literary analysis, Her A Literature of their Own discusses the -female literary tradition which she analyses as an evolution through three phases.
Professor of English, Emeritus. Email. ecshowalter@gmail.com. Since retiring in 2003, Elaine Showalter has been dividing her time between Washington, D.C. and London, where she was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Of Literature.
' Toward a Feminist Poetics ' is a groundbreaking essay by Elaine Showalter. The essay was first presented in 1978 as an introductory lecture on the first series on literature and women at University of Oxford. It was published in 1979.
Elaine Showalter was the chair of the 2007 International Booker Prize judges. She is an American literary critic, feminist and writer.
Elaine Showalter invented gynocriticism, a feminist critical theory and approach that focuses on the woman writer, the meaning of her text, the structure of literature written by women including its history, themes, genres.
