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Die Kunst, Medusa zu töten : zum Bild der Frau in der Literatur der Jahrhundertwende
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ISBN: 3925670076 Year: 1987 Publisher: Bielefeld Aisthesis

Gender and the Writer's Imagination : From Cooper to Wharton
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ISBN: 9780813164182 0813164184 0813116309 9780813116303 0813154227 9780813154220 0813186471 Year: 1987 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky,

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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.Selecting five American writers -- James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Edith Wharton -- Schriber traces the impact of cultural expectations for woman on the art of th


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La parole ensevelie ou l'évangile des femmes
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ISBN: 2204026611 9782204026611 Year: 1987 Publisher: Paris Cerf

The ideology of conduct : essays on literature and the history of sexuality
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ISBN: 0416386008 0416385907 Year: 1987 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Methuen


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Imaging American women : idea and ideals in cultural history
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ISBN: 0231061269 0231061277 Year: 1987 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Columbia university press

Arbeit am Mythos Frau : Weiblichkeit und Autonomie in der literarischen Mythenrezeption Ingeborg Bachmanns, Christa Wolfs und Gertrud Leuteneggers.
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ISBN: 3820409742 Year: 1987 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang

Divided Fictions : Fanny Burney and Feminine Strategy
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ISBN: 081314972X 9780813149721 9780813116334 Year: 1987 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky,

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Today Fanny Burney's venture into authorship would not be questionable. She was, after all, a daughter of a celebrated musician, and the Burney family was know to the circle of Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale. Yet as Kristina Straub ably shows, the public recognition which followed the publication of her first novel placed Fanny Burney in a situation of disturbing ambiguity. Did she become famous or notorious? Was she a prodigy or a freak? In this study of Burney, Straub not only describes and analyzes the disturbing transition of a writer's self-awareness as a woman and a literary artist fro

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