Unlikely heroines : nineteenth-century American women writers and the woman question / Ann R. Shapiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Ann R., 1937-

Series:

Contributions in women's studies 0147-104X ; no. 81.

Contributions in women's studies. 0147-104X ; no. 81

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

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

American fiction--Women authors.

Feminism in literature.

Women in literature.

Heroines in literature.

Women and literature--United States.

Women and literature.

Feminism and literature--United States.

Feminism and literature.

United States.

Physical Description:

154 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Greenwood Press, 1987.

Summary:

The unlikely heroines analyzed in this book are fictional women, who, like their male counterparts of the era, demonstrated an urge to break with tradition, a rejection of conventional values, and a desire for adventure. The six authors who created them--Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Louisa May Alcott, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Kate Chopin--at one time or another all received critical acclaim. However, their gender has prevented them, and their works, from being viewed as an integral part of the important literature of the time. The six novels discussed by Ann Shapiro have in comon a denail of the nineteenth-century ideal of "true Womanhood" in favor of greater freedom and equality for women.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [139]-146.

ISBN:

0313254222

OCLC:

14188044