Essays on Feminist Literary Criticism

Introduction Children’s literature is fundamental when it comes to developing the child’s comprehension capacity, to acquire new knowledge and when interacting with other children or adults. In a few words, it can be said that children’s literature is important since it contributes to the child’s...

In the contemporary era literary criticism, terms related to ‘feminism’, ‘feminist reading’ ‘feminist’ writing’ and ‘feminist criticism’ or ‘gynocriticism’ as Elaine Showalter associate it, nowadays have become passwords. What is feminism? According to Oxford Dictionary, the term feminist persist in the modern period of the...

The way that literature is approached can be critical to the ways in which it is interpreted by the reader. The literary lens, a genre of literary criticism, is a method used to understand a text from varying points of view. By looking at certain...

In the late 1800s, well known female author Sarah Orne Jewett wrote her short story, “A White Heron”. The short story showcases the life of a young girl named Sylvia, that moves with her grandmother in the country side of her town, where she will...

In the 1962 novel, “A Wrinkle in Time,” Madeleine L’Engle challenges the definition of masculinity and femininity through her characters, her genre, and the roles she gave to the individuals throughout the plot. Initially, I noticed that L’Engle implements a rather generous amount of females...

The theme of femininity and also gender stereotypes had formed an integral part of the different literary works which had been composed over the years. In this regard, Louisa May Alcott’s “Eight Cousins” and Lucy Maud Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables” are important ones since...

Children’s literature novels of the 20th century portrayed a general theme of women in traditional women domestic roles. The cliché of a 1950 perfect housewife is recognisable in almost every novel; the batch-baking women in their frilly gowns and puffed sleeves. It was a time...

Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John focuses on gender relations and it’s the pattern throughout the novel. Gender relations also affect the mother-daughter relationship. Outside of the actual plot and the main characters, Annie John displays these gender relations specifically and clearly. With gender relations being an...