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Available
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Columbia University Press (1994), Edition: Reprint, 337 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.
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.
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.
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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Original language
English
Physical description
337 p.; 6.25 inches
ISBN
0231100000 / 9780231100007