A Study of Scarletts : Scarlett O'Hara and Her Literary Daughters /

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There are two portrayals of Scarlett O'Hara: the widely familiar one of the film Gone with the Wind and Margaret Mitchell's more sympathetic character in the book. In A Study of Scarletts, Margaret D. Bauer examines these two characterizations, noting that although Scarlett O'Hara is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bauer, Margaret Donovan, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
O'Hara, Scarlett > (Fictitious character)
Mitchell, Margaret, > 1900-1949. > Gone with the wind.
Frazier, Charles, > 1950- > Cold Mountain.
Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, > 1873-1945. > Barren ground.
Morrison, Toni. > Sula.
Meads, Kat, > 1951- > Invented life of Kitty Duncan (Benedict Roberts Duncan)
Glasgow, Ellen, > 1873-1945. > Barren ground.
Sula (Morrison, Toni)
Gone with the wind (Mitchell, Margaret)
Cold Mountain (Frazier, Charles)
Barren ground (Glasgow, Ellen)
Women in literature.
Social role in literature.
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Female friendship in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Feminist.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Amitie feminine dans la litterature.
Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la litterature.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • In defense of Scarlett O'Hara
  • Gone with the men: Scarlett and Melanie redux in Cold Mountain
  • "Put your heart in the land": an intertextual reading of Barren ground and Gone with the wind
  • Sula: "more sinned against than sinning"
  • "Disregarding the female imperative": Kat Meads's Kitty Duncan, a 1960s-era Scarlett O'Hara
  • Afterword.

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