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Secret journeys : the trope of women's travel in American literature /
Secret Journeys examines the subversive and constructive narrative of female journey from the seventeenth century to the present in such works as John Greenleaf Whittier's Snowbound, Mary Rowlandson's A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mary Rowlandson, Harriet Jacobs's I...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
©1999.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction the secret journey: The trope of women's travel in American literature
- Part I. The contravention of values ; Chapter 1. The not unfeared, half-welcome guest: The woman traveler in John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-Bound
- Part II. Alternative journey ; Chapter 2. Moving targets: The travel text in a narrative of the captivity and restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson ; Chapter 3. "The perilous journey through the human house": The gothic journey in Willa Cather's The Professor's house and Edith Wharton's Summer ; Chapter 4. A woman's place: The politics of space in Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Part III. Travel as social reconstruction ; Chapter 5. The genteel picara: The ethical imperative in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs ; Chapter 6. Sisters of the road: Transience as theme and form in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
- Part IV. Transformative journeys ; Chapter 7. The developmental journey: Narrative, psychological, and social transformation in Eurdora Welty's Short Fiction ; Chapter 8. The postmodern journey: Elizabeth Bishop's Trope of Travel ; Conclusion Oprah's journey: Reading the constructive narrative
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index.