Twentieth-century American women's fiction : a critical introduction
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Twentieth-century American women's fiction : a critical introduction
Macmillan , St. Martin's, 1999
- : uk, hbk.
- : uk, pbk.
- : us, hbk.
- : us, pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-250) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: uk, hbk. ISBN 9780333657720
Description
In this book Guy Reynolds offers a wide-ranging introduction to American women writers. He discusses a wide range of authors from Sarah Orne Jewett to Toni Morrison and the common themes and genres that they have covered. He presents detailed readings of both classic and little-known fictions, placing works in the social and historical contexts of their times. Incisive and detailed, this book will interest readers and students in this increasingly important field of study.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Genealogy of American Women's Narrative, 1892-1995 - 'Sickbed deathbed birthbed': Therapy and Writing in the 1890s - Re-making the Home, 1909 - 1933: Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Mary Antin - Modernist Geographies: Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein - The Interwar Social Problem Novel: Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset, Agnes Smedley - 'There are so many horrible examples of regional writers, and the South is loaded': Eudora Welty, Caroline Gordon, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor - Dysfunctional Realism: Ann Petry, Elizabeth Hardwick, Jean Stafford, Jane Bowles - 'What's Happening in America': Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates - Fiction for the Village: Toni, Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Cynthia Ozick - Index
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: uk, pbk. ISBN 9780333657737
Description
In this book Guy Reynolds offers a wide-ranging introduction to American women writers. He discusses a wide range of authors from Sarah Orne Jewett to Toni Morrison and the common themes and genres that they have covered. He presents detailed readings of both classic and little-known fictions, placing works in the social and historical contexts of their times. Incisive and detailed, this book will interest readers and students in this increasingly important field of study.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Genealogy of American Women's Narrative, 1892-1995.- 'Sickbed deathbed birthbed': Therapy and Writing in the 1890s.- Re-Making the Home, 1909 1933: Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Mary Antin.- Modernist Geographies: Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein.- The Interwar Social Problem Novel: Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset, Agnes Smedley.- 'There are so many horrible examples of regional writers, and the South is loaded': Eudora Welty, Caroline Gordon, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor.- Dysfunctional Realism: Ann Petry, Elizabeth Hardwick, Jean Stafford, Jane Bowles.- 'What's Happening in America': Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates.- Fiction for the Village: Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Cynthia Ozick.- Index.
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