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Plots and proposals : American women's fiction, 1850-90
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Plots and proposals : American women's fiction, 1850-90 / Karen Tracey.
ISBN
0252025237
0252068394 (pbk)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.
Physical Description
ix, 206 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Contents
The renegotiation of marriage in nineteenth-century fiction and culture
Caroline Hentz's "little counterplot" in the Old South
Augusta Evans : ambition and the refinement of the Southern double proposal
Domesticating the "woman's rights woman" in Laura Curtis Bullard's and D. E. N. Southworth's Antebellum double-proposal novels
Courtship in the arena of Civil War : Southworth's Britomarte, the man-hater
Professional women and traditional wedlock : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's narrative negotiations.
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