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“... the pierced heart welled and spurted up around it.’ ‘The sexual implications of the scene,’ Elaine Showalter writes, ‘are embarrassingly clear.’ The sexism of the Hammer horror films pales in comparison to Stoker’s misogyny. It was at its most lurid in his last novel, The Lair of the White Worm (1911), where the description of the fetid ...”

“... to another. There is, of course, more trooping to some destinations than others. Stanley Fish, Elaine Showalter or Hillis Miller can fill a ballroom. Other speakers (particularly those consigned to unsocial hours) will address half-empty partitioned areas the size of broom cupboards. Time for all but keynote speakers is strictly rationed – usually ...”

“... memory’. In a way of course Ralph does sound like one of the millennial hysterics lined up by Elaine Showalter in Hystories – fictional son of Richard Rhodes perhaps, a scientist who has written about the making of the atom bomb, and also described how he was abused in a book called A Hole in the World. However, in Acts of Mutiny recovered memory ...”

“... split on whether it is predominantly a psychological or a physical illness. Sceptics, such as Elaine Showalter, an American professor of English whose 1997 book about hysteria included a controversial chapter on CFS, point out that, despite extensive research, nobody yet knows what causes ME. It often occurs after a virus, but there is no evidence of ...”

“... World War Six Hundred by now. My god, if men ovulated you could get abortions at the bus stop.’ Elaine Showalter discerns a law of three stages in women’s fiction. First is that in which the woman novelist simply mimics the dominant male practitioner – even to the length of calling herself George. Second is feminist fiction, where the strongest ...”

“... of Trombley’s argument is not new. In her chapter on Woolf in A Literature of Their Own (1977), Elaine Showalter perceptively noted the complicity of the novelist’s husband and sister in her illness, and contended that ‘madness was the role in which she articulated her resentment and rage’ against them. ...”

“... Of a tribe which let the fire go out. In A Literature of their Own, the American feminist scholar Elaine Showalter states that she is ‘uncomfortable with the notion of a “female imagination”. The theory of a female sensibility revealing itself in an imagery and form specific to women always runs dangerously close to reiterating the familiar ...”

“... adjustment disorders. I realise this therapist has probably never read Deleuze, or Foucault or Elaine Showalter, I remember I am against psychiatry, I do not return. Zambreno doesn’t write with the measured voice of someone who can count on being listened to, but with the wail of someone confined to a shed. She wonders if she’s writing ‘the ...”

“... past had more than an element of hysterical reminiscing, the flowery path of nostalgia – what Elaine Showalter called the hysteric’s propensity for ‘hystories’. But the treatment enabled her to make a story of hysteria itself, which then became an object for her art. Through this process, Bourgeois came to know that although our past permeates ...”

“... decide not just what you think about it; but what you think about yourself.Atwood wasn’t alone. Elaine Showalter, Catharine MacKinnon, Robin Morgan and Susan Griffin were among her admirers. Reporting on the crowd that descended on a women’s bookstore when Rich gave a reading in New York, Holladay says that she ‘was welcomed as a sort of ...”

“... when claiming that these novels show enlightenment on issues of gender. If we are to trace what Elaine Showalter has called ‘the evolution and laws of female literary tradition’, we obviously have to go beyond merely listing books with a female authorship or audience or ‘viewpoint’. Spender hasn’t got beyond this, and so any novel ...”

“... Recent feminist criticism tries to bring them into the limelight, but this may be mistaken. Elaine Showalter, for instance, writes well on Ophelia, but more than once insists on putting her (presumably to argue her virginal innocence) in a white dress nowhere visible in Shakespeare’s play. But a political – or gender-operated – motive, which ...”

“... The temporarily denominated pub is called the Crossed Pipes.4 May. A review by Elaine Showalter of a biography of the photographer Richard Avedon in which I am mentioned as one of his sitters. Sitting it was too, and in acute discomfort, as Avedon chose to pose me perched on the branch of a tree in Hyde Park, one leg on either ...”

“... larger world receded, and so did whatever sense of mission the pioneers had had. Gubar explains Elaine Showalter’s withdrawal from feminism in a manner I find shocking: ‘Around 1985 ... she stopped producing feminist articles, worn down by hostile reactions produced by people who then turned around to ask her for a letter of recommendation.’ If ...”