Abstract

Karen Michalson reviews Mimi Reisel Gladstein's new volume in Twayne's Masterwork Studies Series, Atlas Shrugged: Manifesto of the Mind. Michalson reads Gladstein's study in terms of late twentieth century gynocriticism and feminist re-examinations of the traditional literary canon. She observes that Gladstein is addressing Rand's exclusion from the feminist canon by using many of the same kinds of arguments feminist critics have developed to argue for the inclusion of lesser known women writers