- Fite , David . 1985 . Harold Bloom: The Rhetoric of Romantic Vision , 5 Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press . for remarks on the propensity of Bloom's 'detractors' for adapting his work
- Nick Groom, The Forger's Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature, London: Picador, 2002. Groom indexes Bloom only at p. 320, but the opening of the book is framed by one of Bloom's most problematic heroes, Prometheus.
- Harold , Bloom . 1973 . The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry , 95 New Haven : Yale University Press . Subsequent references to this work will be found in the text
- Schultz , William R. 1994 . Genetic Code of Culture? The Deconstruction of Tradition by Kuhn, Bloom and Derrida , 53 New York : Garland . where Schultz sidesteps this trap by evaluating Bloom's theory only in relation to those of Kuhn and Derrida but seems then to fall into it by claiming: 'I have emphasised the drawbacks so that some readers might be able to do even better than Bloom
- Harold , Bloom . 1975 . A Map of Misreading , Oxford : Oxford University Press .
- Gilbert , Sandra and Gubar , Susan . 1979 . The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination , New Haven : Yale University Press .
- Ibid., 48-9
- 2003 . "They couldn't write their way out of a paper bag' . New York Times , 12 April : 7 In a recent interview, Bloom said of several major Romantic women poets
- Alien , Graham . 1994 . tests the investment of Bloom's theory in psychoanalytic discourse in Harold Bloom: A Poetics of Conflict , 73 – 86 . 150 – 63 . New York and London : Harvester Wheatsheaf .
- Caruth , Cathy . 1983 . 'Speculative Returns: Bloom's Recent Work' . Modem Language Notes , 98/5 : 1286 – 96 .
- My argument here effectively adapts and extends Anne Mellor's account of Romantic women writers in their relationship to the masculine sublime, in Romanticism and Gender, London: Routledge, 1993, pp. 85-106. In my account, the woman, in a sense, comes first and sets the terms. I would also project Mellor's account of the dependence of some Romantic men on Romantic women across periods and genres (pp. 161-3): by analogy at least, Bloom plays a parasitic William to Mary Shelley's nurturing but uncharacteristically dominant Dorothy Wordsworth.
- Sedgwick , Eve Kosofsky . 1985 . Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire , New York : Columbia University Press .
- 1988 . David Fite's remark (see note 1) registers this strange appropriation, and Peter de Bolla applies it to Gilben and Gubar in Harold Bloom: Towards Historical Rhetorics , 12 London : Routledge .
- Harold , Bloom . 1976 . Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens , New Haven : Yale University Press .
- Bloom , Harold . 1975 . Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism , Oxford : Oxford University Press .
- Harold , Bloom . 1990 . The Book of J , 9 New York : Grove Weidenfeld .
- Ibid., p. 26.
- Ibid., p. 24.
- Bloom, The Book of J, p. 15.
- While The Book of J puts women's writing at, or near, the beginning, Bloom elsewhere executes the other half of a pincer movement by placing feminist criticism solidly after his own writing. See Bloom's Introduction to American Women Fiction Writers, New York: Chelsea House, 1997, vol. 1, p. xiii.
- Bloom, The Book of J, p. 31.
- Ibid., p. 9.
- Harold , Bloom . 1997 . The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, , 2nd edn , xii Oxford : Oxford University Press . The last American combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam in August 1972, and an armistice was agreed between the North Vietnamese and US governments in October 1972
- Harold , Bloom . 1965 . 'Frankenstein, or the New Prometheus' . Partisan Review , 32 autumn : 611 – 18 . This essay also appeared in the Signet edition of the novel, Frankenstein, or The Modem Prometheus, New York and London: New English Library, 1965
- Ibid., p. 617-18
- Susan , Wolstenholme . 1993 . Gothic (Re)Visions: Writing Women as Readers , 12 – 13 . 48 – 56 . Albany : State University of New York Press .
- Clery , E. J. 2000 . Women's Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley, Tavistock , 1 – 24 . Devon : Northcote House . comments extensively on the pivoting of concealment and revelation in the Gothic, especially as a condition conducive to women's writing. Other such conditions are discussed in
- Massé , Michelle A. 1992 . In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism and the Gothic , 192 – 274 . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press .
- Terry , Eagleton . 1983 . Literary Theory: An Introduction , 183 Oxford : Basil Blackwell .
- Allan , Bloom . 1987 . The Closing of the American Mind , New York : Simon and Schuster .
- James , Chandler . 1998 . England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism , Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
- John , Guillory . 1993 . Cultural Capital The Problem of Literary Canon-Formation , Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
- Moretti , Franco . 1996 . Modern Epic: The World-System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez , London : Verso . My assessment here is highly schematic but, I think, tolerably accurate. Although much feminist criticism, especially gynocritics, has capaciously theorized literary history, there are indications that such syncretizing work now constitutes a smaller proportion of the field because of an increase in the historicist recovery of women's writing and a correspondingly more empiricist concern with canon-formation and particular literary traditions. And Postcolonial Studies has had its own large part to play in this latter respect; see, for example
- Rajan , Rajeswari Sunder . 1992 . The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India , Oxford : Oxford University Press . Within feminist criticism, there are numerous exceptions to the trend that I have sketched. One pertinent example is
- Maxwell , Catherine . 2001 . The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness , Manchester : Manchester University Press . which possesses a historical scope commensurate with those grands récits of Elaine Showalter and Bloom himself. This book is pertinent because its 'female sublime' is a version of the Gothic of the present essay, similarly challenging Bloom, but tracking back to Milton
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