Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-320) and index.
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The literary life: some representative women -- The epic age: part of the history of literary women -- Women's literary traditions and the individual talent -- Money, the job, and Little Women: female realism -- Female gothic -- Heroinism: a necessary introduction -- Traveling heroinism: gothic for heroines -- Loving heroinsism: feminists in love -- Performing heroinism: the myth of Corinne -- Educating heroinism: governess to governor -- Metaphors: a postlude -- Notes and Dictionary catalogue of literary women.
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Examining the lives and works of a number of women authors, Moers argues that new genres and new insights were born as female awarenesses and assertions became part of modern literature. She charts the strengths women writers have drawn from each other: George Eliot from Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gertrude Stein from George Eliot, and Willa Cather from George Sand.