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Plots and proposals : American women's fiction, 1850-90 / Karen Tracey.

Van Pelt Library PS374.F45 T73 2000
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Tracey, Karen, 1961-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American fiction.
American fiction--Women authors.
Feminism and literature--United States--History--19th century.
Feminism and literature.
United States.
History.
Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
Women and literature.
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Southern States--In literature.
Southern States.
Women's rights in literature.
Courtship in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Physical Description:
ix, 206 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2000]
Contents:
The renegotiation of marriage
Caroline Hentz: counterplots in the Old South
Augusta Evans: ambition and commitments
Laura J. Curtis Bullard and E.D.E.N. Southworth: counting the "woman's rights woman"
Britomarte, the man-hater: courtship during the Civil War
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: professional women and traditional wedlock.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index.
ISBN:
0252025237
0252068394
OCLC:
41231197

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