Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter is a feminist literary critic, who has particularly written about women and madness (esp. "hysteria") and the Fin de siècle (turn of the century; specifically, the literary and cultural era of the late 19th and early 20th century in Europe, especially France).

Bibliography

• "Toward a Feminist Poetics" (1979) (in Women's Writing and Writing About Women (1979))
• The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture (1830–1980) (1985)
• Sexual Anarchy: Gender at Culture at the Fin de Siecle (1990)
• Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media (1997)
• Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage (2001).
• A Literature of Their Own: British Women and Novelists from Brontë to Lessing (1978)