Feminist Literary Theory

First published in 1986 with a second edition in 1996, Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader constitutes one of the classic texts of second-into-third-wave feminist literary studies. Both a history and a survey of the varied positions within feminist literary theory, the Reader includes extracts from all the major critics, critical approaches and theoretical positions in contemporary feminist literary studies.The third edition of the Reader is divided into seven sections: Finding a Female Tradition; Women and Literary Production; Gender and Genre; Towards Definitions of Feminist Writing; Writing, Reading and Difference; Locating the Subject; and a new section, Writing Glocal, which covers feminism's dialogue with postcolonial, global and spatial studies. Each section has an introduction, which contextualizes the material and guides the reader, and extensive notes with recommendations for further reading.Fully revised, updated and supplemented, this new edition of Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader is one of the most comprehensive, single-volume introductions to a vital and diverse field.