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Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing /
"Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
160. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Highly wrought style
- 1. Florid fantasies: Fuller, Stephens and the 'other' language of flowers
- 2. Sensing the soul: mesmerism, feminism, and highly wrought writing
- 3. Harriet Prescott Spofford's philosophy of composition
- 4. Pauline Hopkins' Baroque Folds: the styled form of Winona
- 5. Coda: the value of ornament: Gilman and Wharton.