The antipatriarchal romance. The romance of the family: Hawthorne ; A portrait of female skepticism: James ; Worlds without women: Melville and Poe -- The antiphalocentric romance. The material reproduction of culture: Faulkner ; Textual indeterminacy and the death of the mother: Faulkner and Anderson -- Nineteenth-century women's fiction. Sentimentalism and human rights: Stowe and Melville ; Literacy realism and a woman's strength: Wharton and Chopin -- The female romance. The mother tongue: McCullers ; Art and the female spirit: O'Connor -- The feminist romance. Absence, loss and the space of history: Morrison ; The graceful art of conversation: Paley
Analysis
English fiction By Women
United States
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-283) and index