Feminist Book History

Bibliography

Feminist Literary Criticism: Groundwork

Gilbert and Gubar 1979 -- Madwoman in the Attic -- released the same year as the first two-volume edition of Eisenstein 1983, which cites McLuhan as inspiration; founding moment of women's and book history together

Auerbach 1980 -- review of Madwoman in the Attic

Showalter 1981 -- "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness" -- founding gynocriticism

Gubar 1981 -- "The Blank Page"

Miller 1985 -- "Rereading as a Woman: The Body in Practice"

King 1995 -- "Of Needles and Pens and Women's Work" -- instrumental in redirecting conversation away from pens and towards needles

Federico 2009 -- Madwoman in the Attic after 30 Years

Feminist Editing / Textual Studies

Ross and Salzman 2016 -- edited collection; helpfully lays out tradition of feminist recuperation and how that early activist work is being resituated in current scholarly contexts

Ezell, Margaret J. M. "Editing Early Modern Women's Manuscripts: Theory, Electronic Editions, and the Accidental Copy-Text." Literature Compass 7.2 (2010): 102-109.