Images of women in literature

by Mary Anne Ferguson

Paperback, 1981

Status

Available

Publication

Houghton Mifflin (1981), Edition: 3rd, Paperback, 565 pages

Description

Images of Women in Literature, Fifth Edition, is an anthology of literature--short fiction, poetry, and drama--by a broad range of female and male writers depicting the roles of women in literature.

User reviews

LibraryThing member AliceAnna
Interesting take on how women are portrayed in literature. Some of the stories didn't really prove the editor's points that well, but many of them were spot on.

I particularly enjoyed "The Sky is Gray" by Ernest J. Gaines, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway, "Rappaccini's
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Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Editha" by William Dean Howells, "Rina the Bird Girl" by Rona Jaffe (excellent look at women who become what they think a man wants), "A New England Nun" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, "A Doll's House, 1970" by Claire Booth Luce and "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell (female solidarity!).
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Physical description

565 p.; 9.1 inches

ISBN

0395291135 / 9780395291139

Local notes

literary studies

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