{"product_id":"famous-last-words-alison-booth-9780813914374","title":"Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure","description":"\u003cp\u003eFamous Last Words traces a broad historical transition- from the 1840s to the 1980s- from the more rigid dichotomy of the Victorian novel, in which good women must marry and fallen women die, to the more open alternatives of twentieth-century fiction, which sometimes permit the independent female protagonist to survive and occasionally allow alternative constructions of gender as well as plot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach essay treats a narrative- novel, novella, or novel poem- by a single author in light of conventions of closure and of gender in historical context. The contributors recover forgotten texts, revise our understanding of women writers once successful, but now somewhat marginalized, and give voice to cultural \"others.\" Works by the already canonized George Eliot are reassessed, and the representation of women in the canonical novels of male writers William Thackeray and Henry James is explored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alison Booth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081391437X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813914374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.06w x 1.05d","brand":"Alison Booth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47425075904767,"sku":"9780813914374","price":34.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_61b7e1fb-65a3-499f-9fa2-59c5b0225a5a.jpg?v=1761536841","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/famous-last-words-alison-booth-9780813914374","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}