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Author Harris, Susan K., 1945-

Title 19th-century American women's novels : interpretative strategies / Susan K. Harris.

Publication Info. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  813.309 H316N    Check Shelf
Description x, 236 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Part I: Introduction -- The nineteenth-century women's text and the twentieth-century academic reader: studies in constitutive conventions -- The public text and the private reader: trace studies in gender-based reading strategies -- Widening the scope: strategies for multileveled reading -- Part II: Narrative designs and textual rebellions -- Preludes: the early didactic novel. Narrative control in Charlotte Temple and A New-England tale -- Introduction to the exploratory text: subversions of the narrative design in St. Elmo -- Decoding the exploratory text: subversions of the narrative design in Queechy -- Part III: Narrative rebellions and textual designs -- Inscribing and defining: the many voices of Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall -- Extending and subverting: the iconography of houses in The deserted wife -- Projecting the "I"/conoclast: first-person narration in The Morgesons -- Part IV: The later didactic novel -- Narrative control and thematic radicalism in Work and The silent partner -- Part V: Conclusions and implications -- Anomalies and anxieties: The story of Avis, A country doctor, The awakening, O pioneers!
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index.
Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- United States -- Books and reading -- History -- 19th century.
Women in literature.
Added Title Nineteenth century American women's novels
Nineteenth-century American women's novels.
ISBN 0521382882 hardcover : covers
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