The use of spatial imagery by three nineteenth-century New England authors -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Rose Terry Cooke : a method for analyzing regional texts /

"" ... A noteworthy contribution to scholarship on late nineteenth-century American women writers ... Hausmann describes how female characters in literary environments operate literally and symbolically to reveal conceptual complexities that challenge traditional notions about women and sp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hausmann, Jessica (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston ; Lampeter : The Edwin Mellen Press, [2014]
Temas:
1800-1899
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Personal space in literature.
Domestic space in literature.
Women in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Espace personnel dans la littérature.
Espace domestique dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
American literature > Women authors
Domestic space in literature
Personal space in literature
Space and time in literature
Women in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by Geraldine Smith-Wright
  • Introduction
  • Redefining home : Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's thwarted escapes and domestic refuges
  • "Little world[s]" and "noble landscape[s]" : spatial imagery in Sarah Orne Jewett's Deephaven and The country of the pointed firs
  • A woman's "right" place : confinement, starvation, and the need for transformative space in selected works of Rose Terry Cooke
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography.

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