Elaine Showalter is a teacher, author, and critic whose books include A Jury of Her Peers: American Woman Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx; A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing; The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and Culture in England, 1830-1908; Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media; and Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage. A past president of the Modern Language Association, she is Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University.

• Introduction: What I Read and What I Read For1. The Fifties: Ivory Towers2. The Sixties: Tribal Towers3. The Seventies: Glass Towers4. The Eighties: Feminist Towers5. The Nineties: Tenured Towers6. Into the Twenty-First Century: Tragic TowersConclusionNotesBibliography of Academic NovelsAcknowledgments

"A read as thoroughly enjoyable as the novels themselves."-Virginia Quarterly Review"Enjoyable . . . and always stimulating."-The Spectator"[Showalter's] survey has all the stylistic snappiness and relish for mischief that marks the funniest books she cites."-The Independent

Elaine Showalter is a teacher, author, and critic whose books include A Jury of Her Peers: American Woman Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx; A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing; The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and Culture in England, 1830-1908; Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media; and Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage. A past president of the Modern Language Association, she is Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University.

• Introduction: What I Read and What I Read For1. The Fifties: Ivory Towers2. The Sixties: Tribal Towers3. The Seventies: Glass Towers4. The Eighties: Feminist Towers5. The Nineties: Tenured Towers6. Into the Twenty-First Century: Tragic TowersConclusionNotesBibliography of Academic NovelsAcknowledgments

"A read as thoroughly enjoyable as the novels themselves."-Virginia Quarterly Review"Enjoyable . . . and always stimulating."-The Spectator"[Showalter's] survey has all the stylistic snappiness and relish for mischief that marks the funniest books she cites."-The Independent

Elaine Showalter is a teacher, author, and critic whose books include A Jury of Her Peers: American Woman Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx; A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing; The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and Culture in England, 1830-1908; Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media; and Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage. A past president of the Modern Language Association, she is Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University.

• Introduction: What I Read and What I Read For1. The Fifties: Ivory Towers2. The Sixties: Tribal Towers3. The Seventies: Glass Towers4. The Eighties: Feminist Towers5. The Nineties: Tenured Towers6. Into the Twenty-First Century: Tragic TowersConclusionNotesBibliography of Academic NovelsAcknowledgments

"A read as thoroughly enjoyable as the novels themselves."-Virginia Quarterly Review"Enjoyable . . . and always stimulating."-The Spectator"[Showalter's] survey has all the stylistic snappiness and relish for mischief that marks the funniest books she cites."-The Independent