Engendering romance : women writers and the Hawthorne tradition, 1850-1990 / Emily Miller Budick.

Contents The antipatriarchal romance. The romance of the family: Hawthorne ; A portrait of female skepticism: James ; Worlds without women: Melville and Poe -- The antiphalocentric romance. The material reproduction of culture: Faulkner ; Textual indeterminacy and the death of the mother: Faulkner and Anderson -- Nineteenth-century women's fiction. Sentimentalism and human rights: Stowe and Melville ; Literacy realism and a woman's strength: Wharton and Chopin -- The female romance. The mother tongue: McCullers ; Art and the female spirit: O'Connor -- The feminist romance. Absence, loss and the space of history: Morrison ; The graceful art of conversation: Paley.
Local noteLittle-303804--305131008784/
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-283) and index.
LCCN 93037419
ISBN0300055579 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS374.F45 B83 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold