| Description |
vii, 366 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"Fictions of female development cited in this volume": p. 357-359. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Nineteenth-century formulations: changing a tradition: Spiritual Bildung: the beautiful soul as paradigm / Marianne Hirsch -- The novel of awakening / Susan J. Rosowski -- "Fairy-born and human-bred": Jane Eyre's education in romance / Karen E. Rowe -- The reflecting reader in Villette / Brenda R. Silver -- Female stories of experience: Alcott's Little women in light of Work / Elizabeth Langland -- 3. Twentieth-century reformulations: claiming a tradition: The sisterhood of Jane Eyre and Antoinette Cosway / Elizabeth R. Baer -- Revolutionary turnings: The mountain lion reread / Blanche H. Gelfant -- Narrative structure(s) and female development: the case of Mrs. Dalloway / Elizabeth Abel -- Doris Lessing and the parables of growth / Catharine R. Stimpson -- 4. Contemporary transformations: creating new traditions: Through the looking glass: when women tell fairy tales / Ellen Cronan Rose -- The female novel of development and the myth of psyche / Mary Anne Ferguson -- Exiting from patriarchy: the lesbian novel of development / Bonnie Zimmerman -- "Why are you afraid to have me at your side?": from passivity to power in Salt of the Earth / Margo Kasdan -- Plain, Black, and decently wild: the heroic possibilities of Maud Martha / Mary helen Washington -- Family ties: female development in Clarice Lispector / Marta Peixoto -- Shadowing/surfacing/shedding: contemporary German writers in search of a female Bildungsroman / Sandra Frieden. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Maturation (Psychology) in literature.
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Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Sex role in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Bildungsromans -- History and criticism.
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| Indexed Term |
Fiction in English Women writers, 1837-1975 - Critical studies |
| Added Author |
Abel, Elizabeth, 1945-
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Hirsch, Marianne.
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Langland, Elizabeth.
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| ISBN |
0874512506 |
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0874512514 (paperback) |
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