4Chirchik State Pedagogical University Current Issues of Modern Philology and Linguodidactics
Staatliche Pädagogische Universität Chirchik Aktuelle Fragen der modernen Philologie und Linguodidaktik
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WOMEN-WRITERS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Mohiraxon Madaminjon kizi Ergasheva
Chirchik state pedagogical university, Faculty of Tourism, Department of Foreign Language and Literature (English), Bachelor degree student [email protected]
ABSTRACT
This article studies the significance of the female writers in English writers.The results to be achieved in this research will be very helpful in working out effective and useful for teaching English literature in the future.The analysis of world women writers 'literary works would depict the changes referred to women's right to take part in public life.[1]
Keywords: deeply investigated theme English language, the literary studies, the literary market, a veil of different literary devices, women writers, feminist organizations.
INTRODUCTION
Nowadays English language is accepted as a language of communication all over the world and it is being paid great attention to in teaching foreign languages in our Uzbekistan. The President of our country Shavkat Mirziyoyev pays special attention to this sphere, which has an important place in ensuring the future of the country and its development. In May 2021, in the Decree of President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev issued a decree on the compulsory study of foreign languages in schools. Against this background, over the past year, the demand for English language learning has noticeable increased. It is impossible to give the exact number of women writers that published then because there were so many of them. Some are known worldwide, some only to the experts in the field of literary studies, and for many other writers any records of their life and their works simply did not survive. The rise of the female novelist began in the18th century, but it was not until the middle of the 19th century that their writings emerged on the literary market. For Elaine Showalter, the nineteenth century was the Age of the Female Novelist. She believes that with appearance of Jane Austen, Charlotte Br^te, and George Eliot, the question of women's aptitude for fiction had been answered. Situation for women writers was very difficult. With almost no formal educational background and little job opportunities, they had no other choice but to immerse themselves in writing novels as their way to escape from the dominant patriarchal society. [2]
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Chirchik State Pedagogical University Current Issues of Modern Philology and Linguodidactics
Staatliche Pädagogische Universität Chirchik Aktuelle Fragen der modernen Philologie und Linguodidaktik
Chirchiq davlat pedagogika universiteti Zamonaviy filologiya va lingvodidaktikaning dolzarb masalalari
LITERATURE REVIEW
During the initial days of literary history, women were themselves the only champions as they expressed their life and feeling through their writings and the readers were also majorly women. To take a glimse of the beginning and growth of women writings, here are a few writers whose contributions had a great impact in women literature. Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication on the Rights of Women is a landmark discourse that showed the way for many women after her to not only publish their works but also to engage in the overall significant discussion surrounding the issue of women in literature. Occasionally there were men who spoke out alongside women. Some of the first recorded attempts to note women's contributions to literature were catalogs published in the eighteenth century and were written by men. Feminead by John Duncombe and Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain Who Have Been Celebrated for their Writing or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts, and Sciences by George Ballard are two such manuscripts. Still for the most part, the majority of people interested in reading and responding to works written by women were other women. One prime example of this is The Female Advocate: A Poem Occasioned by Reading Mr Duncombe's Feminead by Mary Scott. The poem was Scott's first publication and is notable because it praises other women writers publishing at the time, including children's writer Sarah Fielding and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, a writer whose political opinions eventually led to her being blacklisted after she published an inflammatory poem on her disagreement with the British Empire's involvement in the Napoleonic wars. Virginia Woolfs A Room of One's Own is often considered a driving force behind this movement, it presents an argument on the necessity of both a metaphorical and literal "room" for women's literature within the literary tradition. The book also served as the inspiration for the literary journal Room The journal was launched specifically to publish and promote works by female writers. In recent years a greater emphasis on inter sectionality has encouraged exploration into the relationship between race, gender, religion, and class to even further prove the importance of the acknowledgment of the place of marginalized groups in literature.[3]
DISCUSSION AND RESULTS
It is certainly interesting to study the number of female authors included in the syllabuses depending on the type of postgraduate programme. The divisions have been made mainly according to the period the master focuses on. In this way, we have obtained the categories of Romantic, Victorian and twentieth-century masters, since in the previous epochs not many women wrote and fewer published. Some other categories considered are postcolonial studies, «national» literatures (mainly Irish or Scottish), women studies and «others», a miscellaneous group where we have included some
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Chirchik State Pedagogical University Current Issues of Modern Philology and Linguodidactics
Staatliche Pädagogische Universität Chirchik Aktuelle Fragen der modernen Philologie und Linguodidaktik
Chirchiq davlat pedagogika universiteti Zamonaviy filologiya va lingvodidaktikaning dolzarb masalalari
masters on science fiction and cultural studies. In some of the first categories, the university type has also been taken into account. The Romantic period meant the explosion of writing by women. With authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen, it seemed that women had finally managed to get hold of the pen. But are the syllabuses of eighteenth-century literature courses representative of such a revolution? If we have a look at figure two, we can notice that ancient universities include a minimum of female authors in their masters on Romantic literature (only 12% of the writers are female), and it is new universities that include most female authors. Actually, the number of women writers studied overtakes that of men (63,16 versus 36,84 per cent), whereas Red Brick universities stay more conventional and give much more importance to male authors. Probably the reason for some of these remarkable results is that two of the new universities examined, York and Lancaster, have masters on eighteenth-century literature, where subjects such as Women, Poetry and the Novel in the 1790s or Femininity and Literary Culture: English Women Writers and the Politics of the 1790s are offered. This fact obviously makes the number of women authors present in these courses' reading lists increase dramatically.[4]
CONCLUSION
Many women in nineteenth and twentieth century had their economic independence; however, Victorian women still could neglect it for marriage. Besides, it was learnt that while home life had been respected in both Victorian and modern age, people slowly had found the defect of the subordination of wives. Women had gained more freedom in modern age and Virginia Woolf strongly supported the idea of gender equality and was hopeful towards the future of women position in a society. [5]
REFERENCES
1.Abrams, M. & Greenblatt, S. (Eds.) (2006). The Norton anthology of English literature: The major authors (8th ed., Vol. B). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.
2.Bronte, E. (1847). Wuthering heights quotations. Retrieved from http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/wuthering/quotes.html#explanation
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4. K.E. ROSENGREN, «Time and literary fame». Poetics, vol. 14 (1985), pp. 157-172. P.H. MANN, «Romantic fiction and its readership». Ibidem, pp. 95-105
5. Woolf, Virginia; San Diego and New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990. 1/4 Cloth. First Edition; First Printing. 472 pages. An appealing first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with lightly foxed edges (Book #22166)
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