TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schriber,Mary Suzanne
TI  - Gender and the writer's imagination: from Cooper to Wharton 
SN  - 9780813164182
AV  - PS374 .G463 1987
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Feminism and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - Sex role in literature
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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