| Description |
xxiii, 319 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Ad feminam |
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Ad feminam.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ad feminam : women and literature / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Introduction / Beth Kowaleski-Wallace and Patricia Yaeger -- The father's breasts / Patricia Yaeger -- Colette and the captain : daughter as ghostwriter / Jerry Aline Flieger -- Screening the father : the strategy of obedience in early James / Susan M. Griffin -- Renegotiating the Oedipus : Theseus and Hippolytos / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz -- The name of the daughter : identity and incest in Evelina / Irene Fizer -- The naked father in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Vanessa D. Dickerson -- Framing Lolita : is there a woman in the text? / Linda Kauffman -- "Maybe freedom lies in hating" : miscegenation and the Oedipal conflict / Heather Hathaway. |
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The humiliation of Elizabeth Bennet / Susan Fraiman -- "Dying between two laws" : girl heroines, their gods, and their fathers in Uncle Tom's cabin and the Elsie Dinsmore series / Helena Michie -- Creation by the father's fiat : paternal narrative, sexual anxiety, and the deauthorizing designs of Absalom, Absalom! / Joseph A. Boone -- (Re)reading Faulkner as father and daughter of his own text / Minrose C. Gwin -- Where the absent father went : Alcott's work / James D. Wallace -- Engendering the literary father, or, the law-of-the-mother / Andrienne Auslander Munich -- Reading the father metaphorically / Beth Kowaleski-Wallace / My father's penis / Nancy K. Miller. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Patriarchy in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Fathers in literature.
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| Added Author |
Yaeger, Patricia.
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Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth, 1954-
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| ISBN |
0809315297 |
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