WRITER

Elaine Showalter

1941 - Today

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Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She influenced feminist literary criticism in the United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of "women as writers". Showalter has written and edited numerous books and articles focused on a variety of subjects, from feminist literary criticism to fashion, sometimes sparking controversy, especially with her work on illnesses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elaine Showalter has received more than 460,164 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Elaine Showalter is the 6,835th most popular writer (down from 6,136th in 2019), the 14,332nd most popular biography from United States (down from 13,121st in 2019) and the 1,040th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 460k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Evolution of the French Novel, 1641-1782
French fiction, history and criticism
2015
The female malady
Mental health, Mental health services, Psychiatry
1985
Hystories
Epidemic Hysteria, Hysteria (Social psychology), Hysteria, Epidemic
1997
Inventing Herself
Women intellectuals, History, Feminists
2000
Sexual Anarchy
Feminism and literature, English literature, Decadence (Literary movement)
1990
A literature of their own
English fiction, History and criticism, Women authors
A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers and the development of their fiction from the 1800s onwards. It includes assessments of famous writers such as the Brontës, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Drabble and Doris Lessing, but also presents critical appraisals of Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Sarah Grand --- to name but a few of those prolific and successful Victorian novelists - --once household names, now largely forgotten.
1975

Page views of Elaine Showalters by language

Over the past year Elaine Showalter has had the most page views in the with 51,666 views, followed by Spanish (2,063), and German (999). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Galician (108.72%), Macedonian (93.90%), and Malayalam (53.55%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elaine Showalter ranks 6,835 out of 7,302. Before her are David Ignatius, Robert Bridges, Anne Enright, Jan van Steenbergen, Hamid Mir, and Seth Meyers. After her are Hugh MacDiarmid, John Mortimer, Robert C. Cooper, Michael Arndt, Douglas Murray, and Javier Sicilia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Elaine Showalter ranks 631. Before her are Martin Carthy, Lucious Jackson, Eddie Rabbitt, Ulis Williams, Martha Reeves, and Ben Nelson. After her are Lonnie Mack, Keith Newton, Lesley Stahl, Asko Parpola, Cliff Drysdale, and Paul Tsongas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elaine Showalter ranks 14,332 out of 20,380. Before her are Jaime Ray Newman (1978), B.J. Penn (1978), Seth Meyers (1973), Max Casella (1967), Randall Thompson (1899), and Jules Feiffer (1929). After her are Sinitta (1968), Sasha Cohen (1984), Rob Corddry (1971), John Otto (1977), Elizabeth Rodriguez (1973), and Irene Ryan (1902).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Elaine Showalter ranks 1,040. Before her are William Gilmore Simms (1806), Anna Todd (1989), Michael Goldenberg (1965), Peter Hedges (1962), David Ignatius (1950), and Seth Meyers (1973). After her are Michael Arndt (1970), Faye Kellerman (1952), Dan Barker (1949), Robert Pinsky (1940), Ernest Cline (1972), and James T. Farrell (1904).

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