Gender and the writer's imagination from Cooper to Wharton /
Mary Suzanne Schriber.
- Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1987.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Construction -- -- James Fenimore Cooper: the point of departure -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: a pilgrimage to a dovecote -- Confirmation -- -- William Dean Howells: the male imagination at the crossroads -- Henry James: the summit of the male imagination -- Deconstruction -- -- Edith Wharton: the female imagination and the territory within.
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.
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American fiction 19th century History and criticism Feminism and literature United States Sex role in literature Women and literature United States Women in literature