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Wingless flights : Appalachian women in fiction / Danny L. Miller.

Van Pelt Library PS286.A6 M55 1996
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Miller, Danny, 1949-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American fiction--Appalachian Region--History and criticism.
American fiction.
Women and literature--Appalachian Region--History--20th century.
Women and literature.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
History.
Appalachian Region, Southern--In literature.
Appalachian Region, Southern.
Appalachian Region--In literature.
Appalachian Region.
Mountain life in literature.
Women in literature.
Southern Appalachian Region.
Physical Description:
x, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, [1996]
Contents:
Introduction: The Spirit of Mountain Women 1
Chapter 1 The Paradox of Appalachia and the Stereotype of the Mountain Woman 15
Chapter 2 Romantic Idealization and the Mountain Woman as Victim: The Works of Mary Noailles Murfree 31
Chapter 3 Mountain Gloom in the Works of Edith Summers Kelley and Anne W. Armstrong 53
Chapter 4 Native Writers and "Authenticity" Emma Bell Miles and Jesse Stuart 78
Chapter 5 James Still's Mountain Women 102
Chapter 6 Harriette Simpson Arnow's Mountain Women: Defeated or Triumphant? 124.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-179) and index.
ISBN:
0879727179
0879727187
OCLC:
35192190

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