After intensive study of female consciousness described in both female and male’s writings, she came to a conclusion that women were/are misunderstood and misidentified because of raw attention and weak sensibility of other than woman herself. Showalter’s female research methodology was concerned with abnormal psychology which assisted her during reading reactions of a female sensibility on printed pages. It looks into what makes her feminist criticism best and most importantly characterized, and her literary framework for the analysis of women’s literature. an explanation of how writing by women discloses a distinctively female discourse. an analysis of women writing in a patriarchal culture, or a development of a feminist aesthetics, i.e. It investigates whether Showalter’s critical approach is a feminist social critique, i.e. It tries to reflect upon her critical theorization and practice, and recognize the credibility and aftereffect of both among contemporary authors, critics and readers. The present chapter is an attempt to explore Showalter’s feminist critical philosophy and the corresponding practice of such an innovative approach in literary feminism.
She, being a specialized in Victorian literature, wrote on pre-victorian, Victorian, and modern female writers observing their social, cultural, religious and financial status in their own periods. She developed the concept of “gynocritics” and practised it through her life career. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute – she is the Other.Įlaine Showalter, an American feminist, retired recently from faculty position in Princeton University in 2003. Georgics, Virgil (70 - 19 BC) Roman poet. Lucky is he who could understand the causes of things.
Elaine Showalter: Theory of Gynocriticism
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