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Article: The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory.(Book review)
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- Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
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- June 22, 2007
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Ellen Rooney, ed., THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY. Cambridge (UK) and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 322p. $80.00, ISBN 978-0521807067; pap., $27.99, ISBN 978-0521001687.
The field of feminist literary theory does not easily lend itself to generalizations; in her introduction, volume editor Ellen Rooney readily acknowledges the complexity of her enterprise. This Companion gathers essays by thirteen scholars, exploring in very different ways a range of approaches to the field. Thus, the title word "theory" is something of a misnomer, since there appears to be no single definition: "Feminist literary theories," Rooney writes, "are ...