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

by Emily Miller Budick

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This engrossing book describes how four twentieth-century women writers--Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Morrison, and Grace Paley--have inherited and adapted the classical tradition of American romance fiction.

Emily Miller Budick argues that this tradition, exemplified by the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison, is inherently skepticist, questioning whether...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0300055579

ISBN13:9780300055573

Release Date:April 1994

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:300 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Women Authors

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