Title Sister's choice : tradition and change in American women's writing / Elaine Showalter

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991

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Description viii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Series Clarendon lectures Clarendon lectures. Contents American questions -- Miranda's story -- 'Little Women': the American female myth -- 'The Awakening': tradition and the American female talent -- The death of the lady (novelist): Wharton's 'House of Mirth' -- The other lost generation -- American female gothic -- Common threads Summary Traces the transformations of themes in women's writings by examining three women author's works Analysis English literature By Women United States Notes "The Clarendon lectures, 1989." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-195) and index Notes Also issued online Subject Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Little women. Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904. Awakening. Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. House of mirth. SUBJECT Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904. Awakening. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012015669 Women & literature http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42026678 -- United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Women and literature -- United States -- History. LC no. 91012852 ISBN 0198123833

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