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Delany, Elizabeth Carter, Catherine Talbot, Elizabeth Montagu, Hester Chapone, Mrs. Thrale, Hannah More-indeed all of the bluestockings-were passionately concerned with literary criticism. There was Clara Reeve, who in 1785 wrote The Progress of Romance through times, countries and manners; with remarks on the good and bad effects of it, on them respectively, in the course of evening conversations (2 vols), and Mary Hays and Mary Wollstonecraft (and her daughter Mary Shelley) who made their own marks on the literary landscape.
Few academic men seem to have read any literature about the treatment of women and their work and in the best traditions of the male-dominated academy they are prepared to assert-as Elaine Showalter (1986) has indicated-that they are against feminist literary criticism and consequently have not read any (p. 126). Without being embarrassed by the gaffes they are making or the powerploys that they reveal, there are men in English Departments who continue to state unequivocally that the reason there are no women-or so few womenon their reading lists is because during the particular period being studied women did not write anything-or that what they wrote was without literary merit.
But what I cannot abide is the way his work reinforces the idea that when men concern themselves with only while 32 The Writing or the Sex men they are engaged in scholarly, honourable, and admirable act1v1t1es of universal significance, whereas women who concern themselves with women are branded as partisan, political-polemical-and confined to issues of minor importance and interest. What women are encountering in these circumstances are much the same stereotypes about language that flourish in relation to the spoken word.