Elizabeth Abel
Elizabeth Abel (born 1945) is an American literary scholar, professor of English at the
feminist literary theory from "recovering a lost tradition to discovering the terms of confrontation with the dominant tradition", by means of "specific historical studies of the ways women revise prevailing themes and styles".[1] Abel's Virginia Woolf and the fictions of psychoanalysis related Virginia Woolf's work to 1920s social anthropology and the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein.[1]
Works
- (ed.) Writing and sexual difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
- (ed. with Marianne Hirsch and Elizabeth Langland) The Voyage in : fictions of female development. Hanover, NH : Published for Dartmouth College by University Press of New England, 1983
- (ed. with Emily K. Abel) The Signs reader: women, gender, & scholarship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
- Virginia Woolf and the fictions of psychoanalysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
- (ed. with Barbara Christian and Helene Moglen) Female subjects in black and white: race, psychoanalysis, feminism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
- Signs of the times: the visual politics of Jim Crow. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-135-22129-4.
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