عنوان

Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing /

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0511780052

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0511901836

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052176968X

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9780511780059

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Title Proper

Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Dorri Beam.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2010.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (viii, 260 pages)

Series Title

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;

Volume Designation

160

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: Highly wrought style -- 1. Florid fantasies: Fuller, Stephens and the 'other' language of flowers -- 2. Sensing the soul: mesmerism, feminism, and highly wrought writing -- 3. Harriet Prescott Spofford's philosophy of composition -- 4. Pauline Hopkins' Baroque Folds: the styled form of Winona -- 5. Coda: the value of ornament: Gilman and Wharton.

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"Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at how gender determines literary style. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing"--

Title

Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing.

International Standard Book Number

9780521769686

Kölner Künstlervereinigung Stil

University of South Alabama

Aesthetics in literature.

American fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.

Feminism and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Literary style-- Sex differences.

Romanticism-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Women authors, American-- 19th century-- Aesthetics.

Aesthetics in literature.

American fiction-- Women authors.

Feminism and literature.

Frauenliteratur

Frauenroman-- amerikanischer-- Geschichte 20. Jh-- Sprache und Stil.

Frauenroman-- amerikanischer-- Motiv-- Geschlechtsrolle.

Geschlechtsrolle-- Motiv-- Frauenroman-- amerikanischer.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

Literary style-- Sex differences.

Romanticism.

Stil.

Vrouwelijke auteurs.

Women and literature.

United States.

USA.

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DSB

LIT-- 004020

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Edition

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Beam, Dorri.

Date of Transaction

20201206222516.0

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