Gender and the Writer's Imagination : From Cooper to Wharton /

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The concept of woman as having a distinctive nature and requiring a separate sphere of activity from that of man was pervasive in the thinking of nineteenth- century Americans. So dominant was this ""horizon of expectations"" for woman that the imaginations of our finest novelist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schriber, Mary Suzanne, 1938- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women in literature.
Women and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Feminism and literature.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Feminist.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Femmes et litterature > États-Unis.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Roman americain > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Women and literature > United States.
Feminism and literature > United States.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • [1.] Construction: James Fenimore Cooper: the point of departure
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: a pilgrimage to a dovecote
  • [2.] Confirmation: William Dean Howells: the male imagination at the crossroads
  • Henry James: the summit of the male imagination
  • [3.] Deconstruction: Edith Wharton: the female imagination & the territory within.

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