Women's Fiction: Guide to Novels by and About Women in America, 1820-70 / Nina Baym
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Estados Unidos.: Cornell University Press 1978Edition: 1.edDescription: 320p.: 22cmISBN: 0-8014-1128-9Subject(s): NOVELA ESTADOUNIDENSSE -- HISTORIA Y CULTURA | NOVELA ESTADONIDENCE -- MUJERES EN LA LITERATURADDC classification: 813.03 Summary: This book reports on a large body of once popular but now neglected American fiction, the novels by America Women authors about women, written between 1820 an di 1870.This fiction was by far the most popular literature of its time, and on the strength of that popularity, authorship in America was established as a woman’s profession, and reading as a woman’s avocation. Today we hear of this literature, if at all, chiefly through detractors who deplore the feminizing and hence degradations of the noble art of lathers’ segment of literary history is thus lost to us, a segment that may be of special interest today as we seek to recover and understand the experiences of women.Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Libros | Biblioteca Fermín Chan Novela | Colección | 813.03 B359 (Browse shelf) | e.1 | Available | 0056278 |
This book reports on a large body of once popular but now neglected American fiction, the novels by America Women authors about women, written between 1820 an di 1870.This fiction was by far the most popular literature of its time, and on the strength of that popularity, authorship in America was established as a woman’s profession, and reading as a woman’s avocation. Today we hear of this literature, if at all, chiefly through detractors who deplore the feminizing and hence degradations of the noble art of lathers’ segment of literary history is thus lost to us, a segment that may be of special interest today as we seek to recover and understand the experiences of women.
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