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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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