Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:052176968X
ISBN13:9780521769686
Release Date:July 2010
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:270 Pages
Weight:1.19 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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