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Elaine Showalter?s view of the Female Literary Tradition in the English Novel
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Abstract
The present study has been devoted to mapping out the development of Showalter‘s feminist criticism and to exploring the facts on which Showalter‘s theoretical convictions rest. It has attempted to explicate how Showalter‘s feminist criticism has differed in scope and approach. It has also analyzed a number of her books and essays in order to give a full review of how her critical views have changed through a career which spanned more than forty years. Elaine Showalter has made an influential contribution to the domain of literary studies. Out of a productive career, she has enriched contemporary feminist criticism and her theoretical tactics have been able to extricate women from the authority of the male-centered academic establishment. She has invalidated literary principles which claimed that women‘s creativity cannot equate to men‘s literary genius. She has challenged a centuries-long mastery of androcentric modes of thinking and developed new gynocentric literary models which place the female experience and vision at the centre of literary practice. Hence, Showalter has launched an alternative female literary history in the academic establishment. She has given women access to a critical model of their own which enabled the woman writer to express women‘s experiences and visions distinctly regardless of validation of the male literary tradition.