For the Guardian, he named his top ten books about books, including:Elaine Showalter, A Literature of their Own (1978)Read about another book on Sutherland's list.
Showalter was the critic who realised that after the breakthroughs of the women's movement in the 1960s a new map of literature was required. More particularly some mapping out of the zone in which women talk to women. Why does Jane Eyre mean more to a woman reader than a man? Or does it? Essentially, Showalter takes Virginia Woolf's "room of one's own" thesis and applies it to fiction. In her career she went on to help frame a whole new syllabus area.
Learn more about Sutherland's list of the best books about listing.
--Marshal Zeringue
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