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Engendering Romance: Women Writers and the Hawthorne Tradition, 1850-1990

Engendering Romance: Women Writers and the Hawthorne Tradition, 1850-1990

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0300055579
ISBN13: 9780300055573
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Apr 27 1994
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.49 Depth: 9.59
Language: English
This engrossing book describes how four twentieth-century women writers-Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Morrison, and Grace Paley-have inherited and adapted the classical tradition of American romance fiction. Emily Miller Budick argues that romance fiction, exemplified by the works of Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Faulkner, and Ellison, is skeptical and antipatriarchal, and that women writers have built on the tradition to accommodate the exigencies of modern American society.

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