Unlikely Heroines: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Woman Question by Shapiro, Ann R.

Unlikely Heroines: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Woman Question (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313254222)

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Unlikely Heroines: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Woman Question by Shapiro, Ann R.

Unlikely Heroines: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Woman Question

$75.00
Unlikely Heroines: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Woman Question by Shapiro, Ann R.

Unlikely Heroines: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Woman Question

$75.00
Format: Hardcover
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The unlikely heroines analyzed in this book are fictional women, who, like their male counterparts of the era, demonstrated an urge to break with tradition, a rejection of conventional values, and a desire for adventure. The six authors who created them--Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Louisa May Alcott, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Kate Chopin--at one time or another all received critical acclaim. However, their gender has prevented them, and their works, from being viewed as an integral part of the important literature of the time. The six novels discussed by Ann Shapiro have in comon a denail of the nineteenth-century ideal of true Womanhood in favor of greater freedom and equality for women.

Author: Ann R. Shapiro
ISBN-10: 0313254222
ISBN-13: 9780313254222
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 05/14/1987
Pages: 163
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.66w x 0.74d
By Ann R. Shapiro
By Ann R. Shapiro
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ANN R. SHAPIRO is Associate Professor of English, State University of New York at Farmingdale.

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