READING LITERARY CRITICISM

Baym, Nina. 1984. Novels, Readers and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Jardine, Alice. 1982. “Gynesis,” Diacritics 12:54-65.

Jefferson, Ann and David Robey , eds. 1982. Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction. London: Batsford Academic and Educational.

Leavis, F. R. 1969 [1949]. The Great Tradition. New York: New York University Press.

Millet, Kate. 1971 [1969]. Sexual Politics. New York: Avon.

Poovey, Mary. 1984. The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Showalter, Elaine. 1977. A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing.. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Showalter, Elaine. 1984. “Women's Time, Women's Space: Writing the History of Feminist Criticism.” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 3:29-44.

Spender, Dale. 1986. Mothers of the Novel. New York: Pandora Press.

Tompkins, Jane. 1985. Sensation Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction 1790-1860. New York: Oxford University Press.

Tompkins, Joyce M. S. 1961 [1932]. The Popular Novel in England, 1770-1800. London: Constable.

Tuchman, Gaye with Nina E. Fortin. Forthcoming. Edging Women Out: Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social Change. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Vicinus, Martha. 1985. Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women, 1850-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.