| Description |
ix, 253 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: the Genealogy of American Women's Narrative, 1892-1995 -- 1. 'Sickbed Deathbed Birthbed': Therapy and Writing in the 1890s -- 2. Re-making the Home, 1909-33: Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Mary Antin -- 3. Modernist Geographies: Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein -- 4. The Interwar Social Problem Novel: Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset, Agnes Smedley -- 5. 'There are So Many Horrible Examples of Regional Writers, and the South is Loaded': Eudora Welty, Caroline Gordon, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor -- 6. Dysfunctional Realism: Ann Petry, Elizabeth Hardwick, Jean Stafford, Jane Bowles -- 7. 'What's Happening in America': Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates -- 8. Fictions for the Village: Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Cynthia Ozick |
| Summary |
"This book offers a wide-ranging introduction to American women writers and their work from Sarah Orne Jewett to Toni Morrison. Through their literature American women have established their identity and created new ways of thinking about themselves and their society."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-250) and index |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
99015611 |
| ISBN |
0333657721 : |
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033365773X paperback |
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0312226373 paperback |
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0312226365 cloth |
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