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Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter is a professor emeritus at Princeton; her book A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx will be published in 2009.

Selected bibliography

  • A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers 1650-2000 (2007)
  • Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents (2005)
  • Teaching Literature (2002)
  • Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage (2001)
  • Hystories: Hysteria, Gender and Culture (1998)
  • Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle (editor) (1993)
  • Sister’s Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women’s Writing (1991)
  • Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin-de-Siècle (1991)
  • Speaking of Gender (1989)
  • The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980 (1986)
  • A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1977)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content All I Did Was Marry Him · 6 November 2008

subscriber-only content Every single one matters · 18 August 2005

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subscriber-only content Mexxed Missages · 4 November 2004

subscriber-only content The Snowman cometh · 24 July 2003

  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

subscriber-only content Vibrating to the Chord of Queer · 6 March 2003

  • Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  • Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory edited by Stephen Barber and David Clark

subscriber-only content How to Be Good · 11 July 2002

  • Unless by Carol Shields

Das Nuffa Dat and BigGloria3 · 1 November 2001

subscriber-only content At Sundance · 22 February 2001

Fade to Greige · 4 January 2001

  • A Dedicated Follower of Fashion by Holly Brubach
  • Fashion Today by Colin McDowell
  • Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender and Society in Clothing by Diana Crane
  • Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries by Avril Hart and Susan North
  • Don We Now Our Gay Appalrel: Gay Men’s Dress in the 20th Century by Shuan Cole
  • The Gallery of Fashion by Aileen Ribeiro
  • Giorgio Armani by Germano Celant and Harold Koda

Prada Queen · 10 August 2000

  • Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London’s West End by Erika Diane Rappaport

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Miss Fleur gave me the most awful restyle · 10 December 1998

  • Between Us Girls by Joe Orton
  • 'Fred & Madge' and 'The Visitors' by Joe Orton

 not available in archive Even if I married a whole harem of women I’d still act like a bachelor · 17 September 1998

  • Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Sherman
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life by Janice Hadda

 not available in archive Diary · 2 April 1998