Books by Elaine Showalter

The fascinating letters between Vera Brittain (Testament of Youth) and Winifred Hotlby (South Riding) that tells the story of an extraordinary, important friendship that created a model for a new kind of independent woman, after the first World War.

Joyce Carol Oates's prize-winning story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"" takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her fiction. This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Oates's life, an authoritative text of the story, ten critical essays, and a bibliography

Showalter re-draws the picture of mental illness with clearer lines and as something which is closer to home than some would care to admit.

First published in 1977, this book includes a chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women.

* Revised and expanded edition with a new introduction and postscript, published to coincide with Elaine Showalter's new hardback, A JURY OF HER PEERS

A vital counter-interpretation of madness in women, showing how it is often a consequence of, rather than a deviation from, the traditional female role.

Stories by celebrated female writers Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton - edited by Elaine Showalter