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