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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 · Learn about Showalter's concept of gynocriticism and her analysis of the female literary tradition in three phases: feminine, feminist and female. Explore her categories of feminist criticism: woman as reader and woman as writer.
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.
Feminism, History, Literary Criticism. edit data. 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.
A chapter from a book on twentieth-century literary theory that introduces the concepts of feminist critique and gynocritics. It explains the difference between feminist criticism as reader and writer, and cites Showalter's work as an example of gynocritics.
Elaine Showalter was the chair of the 2007 International Booker Prize judges and a pioneer of feminist literary criticism. She is known for her books on women writers, illnesses, fashion and more.
