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This important critical study explores the main features of contemporary feminist literary criticism in Great Britain, America and France. It shows how feminist critics, while writing out their critical “fathers”, have created innovatory critical strategies in a new literary history.
Maggie Humm outlines the general problematics within the field, examines the contribution of such contemporary feminist pioneers as Simone de Beauvoir and Kate Millett, ...
This text is designed as a companion volume to Maggie Humm’s popular textbook A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism. It offers the student reader examples of feminist approaches to literature in both theory and practice, demonstrating the range and complexity of feminist and critical questions, and showing them concretely at work. Following a lucid account of what is covered by the terms ‘feminism’ and ...