Rising to the surface : suicide as narrative strategy in twentieth-century women's fiction

Author(s)

• Sinclair, Gail D.

Bibliographic Information

Rising to the surface : suicide as narrative strategy in twentieth-century women's fiction

by Gail D. Sinclair

UMI, c1998

Note

Reprint of the author's thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of South Florida, December 1997

Selected bibliography: p 177-193

Vita: p [194]

UMI Number: 9815466

Contents of Works

• "The awakening" : Deadly awakenings : Edna Pontellier and the paradox of self-possession
• "The house of mirth" : The beautifully damned : Edith Wharton's fatal "Femme"
• "Mrs. Dalloway" : Clarissa Dalloway's successful suicide : the paradox of loss
• "The golden notebook" : Anna Freeman Wulf : the burden of autonomous life
• "The bell jar" : Esther Greenwood and the landscape of the female artist
• "Surfacing" : resurfacing : Margaret Atwood's narrative quest

• NCID: BA43490991
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Ann Arbor, Mich.
• Pages/Volumes: iv, 193 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • FREE : Chopin, Kate, 1851-1904
  • FREE : Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
  • FREE : Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
  • FREE : Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
  • FREE : Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963
  • FREE : Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-