Engendering Romance - Women Writers and the Hawthorne Tradition, 1850-1990

Zusammenfassung Describes how four 20th-century women writers have inherited and adapted a tradition of American romance. Analyzing fiction by Faulkner and others, this work goes on to explain how women have updated the genre to include alternatives to matriarchal (as well as patriarchal) constructions.

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• Authors: E. Miller Budick, Emily Miller Budick, Emily Miller Budick Budick, Budick Emily Miller
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.1994
• EAN: 9780300055573
• ISBN: 978-0-300-05557-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form