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Plain & ugly Janes : the rise of the ugly woman in contemporary American fiction /
"If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new charac...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2006]
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| Series: | Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature, the "ugly woman," whose roots can be traced to the Old Maid/Spinster character of the nineteenth century. During the 1970s, stories began to appear in which the ugly woman is a figure of power-heroic not in the traditional old maid's way of quiet, passive acc |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 136 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781587297779 1587297779 1138878448 9781138878440 1135706026 9781135706029 1315054086 9781315054087 1135706093 9781135706098 |