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

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing // Dorri Beam.
remainder title:	Style, Gender, & Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing
Author:	Beam, Dorri,
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 260 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	American fiction - Women authors -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780059
ISBN:	9780511780059 (ebook)

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

Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing /Style, Gender, & Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's WritingDorri Beam. - 1 online resource (vii, 260 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;160. - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;165..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction: Highly wrought style -- Florid fantasies : Fuller, Stephens and the 'other' language of flowers -- Sensing the soul : mesmerism, feminism, and highly wrought fiction -- Harriet Prescott Spofford's Philosophy of composition -- Pauline Hopkins' Baroque folds : the styled form of Winona -- Coda. The value of ornament : Gilman and Wharton.

In this 2010 book, 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 of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at style as a medium through which gender can be signified and reshaped. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing.

ISBN: 9780511780059 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

570309
American fiction
--Women authors

LC Class. No.: PS374.W6 / B43 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.3099287

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