| Description |
vi, 339 pages ; 28 cm |
| Summary |
The dissertation considers a specific rhetorical gesture, a permutation of prosopopoeia, which the author calls the trope of the posthumous voice. The appearance of this trope is traced in the work of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath |
| Notes |
Published on demand |
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 328-339 |
| Subject |
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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