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Tomorrow is Another Day : The Woman Writer in the South, 1859-1936 /
From the mid-nineteenth century through at least the first half of the twentieth, the southern code of appropriate feminine behavior required that women depend on sources outside themselves for sustenance, direction, and expression. The chivalric ideal that placed the southern lady on a pedestal oft...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge, La. :
Louisiana State University Press,
1981.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From the mid-nineteenth century through at least the first half of the twentieth, the southern code of appropriate feminine behavior required that women depend on sources outside themselves for sustenance, direction, and expression. The chivalric ideal that placed the southern lady on a pedestal often created within her gracious and gentle exterior a turmoil of frustration, confusion, and resentment.This concept of upper middle-class, white southern womanhood forms an important part of the imaginative expression of the southern women writers whose works and lives form the subject matter of thi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (388 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780807141403 |