Dinnage

Dinnage is a reviewer who, by the sound of it, has been working for some time.

A Reviewer Reviewing a Reviewer « So Many Books 2004

'If it's about misery, send it to Dinnage,' she imagines her literary editors saying.

Comic, Sad and Indefinite Lee, Hermione 2004

Rosemary Dinnage replies: Professor Littlewood's addition to the history of fugueurs recounted by Professor Hacking is very interesting.

'Mad Travelers' Littlewood, Roland 2000

Dinnage would substitute for the book's central perception of the woman writer's rage to break free of male formulations an ideal of female "fairmindedness."

Men, Women, and Lit. Auerbach, Nina 1980

We doubt whether Dinnage would find it fair to excoriate King Lear's lack of fairmindedness toward Goneril and Regan, though she accepts only cautionary virtues in nineteenth-century novels by women.

Men, Women, and Lit. Auerbach, Nina 1980

Perhaps because Dinnage is a psychologist rather than a literary critic, her reductive reading of The Madwoman in the Attic belittles its material far more than Gilbert and Gubar do theirs; replacing analysis with moralistic formulae, Dinnage shows little trace of the fairmindedness she extolls.

Men, Women, and Lit. Auerbach, Nina 1980

Dinnage also takes Gilbert and Gubar to task for anachronism in finding feminist themes and images in nineteenth-century novels, apparently unaware that the feminist movement was not invented in our own decade but generated stormy debates, which no major writer ignored, throughout the nineteenth century.

Men, Women, and Lit. Auerbach, Nina 1980

The final marriages are far from the jolly compromises Dinnage lauds; such eminent male critics as Asa Briggs and Robert Bernard Martin have commented upon the bleak implausibility of Brontë's "happy ending."

Men, Women, and Lit. Auerbach, Nina 1980

Dinnage reveals her shaky knowledge of the period by such odd associations as that of Charlotte Brontë's "cruel and slatternly" image of Human Justice with "the mother who deserted Brontë so early."

Men, Women, and Lit. Auerbach, Nina 1980

Dinnage fares no better when she takes Gilbert and Gubar to task for their readings of George Eliot's Middlemarch and Charlotte Brontë's Shirley.

Men, Women, and Lit. Auerbach, Nina 1980