Looking at the concerns of feminist criticism English literature essay
THE NEW FEMINIST CRITICISM: ESSAYS ON WOMEN, LITERATURE AND. THEORY. Edited by Elaine Showalter. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985, 403pp. This book is a collection of eighteen feminist literary criticisms inspired by feminist theory or by the politics of feminism more broadly. Its history has been wide and varied. In the most general and simple terms, feminist literary criticism in the first and second waves of feminism was concerned with the politics of women's authorship and representation. While Wharton's career flourished in the United States, the English feminist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), who was also an essayist and editor, also enjoyed popularity. She began her publishing career with the novel The Voyage Out, which took seven years of work. In early adulthood, Woolf studied Greek, an unusual subject for a literary theory. 'Literary theory' is the set of ideas and methods we use in the practical reading of literature. By literary theory we do not mean the meaning of a literary work, but the theories that reveal what literature can mean. Literary theory is a description of the underlying principles, you could say the instruments, with which. The first wave of feminist criticism includes books such as Marry Ellman's Thinking About Women (1968), Kate Millet's Sexual Politics (1969), and Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch (1970). An example of first wave feminist literary analysis would be a critique of William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. for Petruchio's misuse of Essay on Feminism in India. Emerging as a literary and social force to define the nation Women play a prominent role in every nation, they can be colonial, anti-colonial or post-colonial in shaping national imaginations. India is presented as Mother India, a female cult. In England the female figure is very dominant. The feminist movement in America received major impetus from the civil rights movement, and in Britain it has had a political orientation, insisting on placing both feminist issues and literary texts within a material and ideological context. Anglo-American feminism thus tends towards liberal humanist critical tendencies,