Elaine Showalter
Elaine Showalter · Arts & Literature
Literary & drama critic
1941, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
United States
Elaine Showalter is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Literary & drama critic
Elaine Showalter is an American literary critic and professor emerita at Princeton who founded 'gynocriticism', the study of women's writing on its own terms, and shaped feminist literary theory with works such as 'A Literature of Their Own'. She has also written widely on culture and medicine. Showalter is Jewish, born to a Jewish family in Boston.
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Literary & drama critic
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