Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing /

Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing /

"Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety...

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Main Author: Beam, Dorri
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 160.
Subjects:
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Romanticism > United States > History > 19th century.
Feminism and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Women authors, American > 19th century > Aesthetics.
Literary style > Sex differences.
Aesthetics in literature.
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