Title The feminine sublime : gender and excess in women's fiction / Barbara Claire Freeman

Edition [Pbk. ed., 1997] Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1997, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 202 pages) Contents Introduction: The feminine sublime -- The awakening : waking up at the end of the line -- "Sublime speculations" : Edmund Burke, Lily Bart, and the ethics of risk -- Strange bedfellows : Kant, Shelley, Rhys, and the misogynist sublime -- Love's labor : Kant, Isis, and Toni Morrison's sublime Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-184) and index Notes Print version record Subject American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- United States -- History Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History Femininity in literature. Sublime, The, in literature. Authorship -- Sex differences Feminism and literature. Sex role in literature. Aesthetics, Modern. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. FICTION / General Aesthetics, Modern American fiction -- Women authors Authorship -- Sex differences English fiction -- Women authors Femininity in literature Feminism and literature Sex role in literature Sublime, The, in literature Women and literature Great Britain United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520919099 0520919092 0585181764 9780585181769

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