Becoming a Heroine: Reading about Women in Novels

by Rachel M. Brownstein

Paperback, 1984

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Available

Tags

Feminism and literature, feminist criticism, fiction, Jane Austen, literary criticism, literary theory, literature non-fiction, women in literature, women's history

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Publication

Penguin Books (1984), Paperback, 368 pages

Description

A study of the heroine in the fiction of such writers as Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Henry James.

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LibraryThing member lucybrown
Really an insightful analysis of women in literature. Brownstein asserts that "a heroine, like a novelist, can convert the
least promising of lives into art by the way she looks at it." Of the literary criticism with a feminist bent, this is one of the best.
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LibraryThing member lucybrown
Really an insightful analysis of women in literature. Brownstein asserts that "a heroine, like a novelist, can convert the
least promising of lives into art by the way she looks at it." Of the literary criticism with a feminist bent, this is one of the best.
LibraryThing member lucybrown
Really an insightful analysis of women in literature. Brownstein asserts that "a heroine, like a novelist, can convert the
least promising of lives into art by the way she looks at it." Of the literary criticism with a feminist bent, this is one of the best.

Subjects

Language

English

Physical description

368 p.; 5.08 inches

ISBN

0140067876 / 9780140067873

Local notes

literary studies

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