Gender and the Writer's Imagination: From Cooper to Wharton (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813154220)

The concept of woman as having a distinctive nature and requiring a separate sphere of activity from that of man was pervasive in the thinking of nineteenth- century Americans. So dominant was this """"horizon of expectations"""" for woman that the imaginations of our finest novelists were often subverted, even as they attempted to expand the possibilities for women through their fiction. Selecting five American writers-James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Henry James,

Author: Mary Suzanne Schriber
ISBN-10: 0813154227
ISBN-13: 9780813154220
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d