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Plots and proposals : American women's fiction, 1850-90
- Title
- Plots and proposals : American women's fiction, 1850-90 / Karen Tracey.
- Author
- Tracey, Karen, 1961-
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 00-3898 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- ix, 206 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Courtship in literature
- American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
- Marriage in literature
- Women's rights in literature
- Southern States > In literature
- American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Feminism and literature > United States > History > 19th century
- Sex role in literature
- Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196) and index.
- Contents
- The renegotiation of marriage -- Caroline Hentz: counterplots in the Old South -- Augusta Evans: ambition and commitments -- Laura J. Curtis Bullard and E.D.E.N. Southworth: counting the "woman's rights woman" -- Britomarte, the man-hater: courtship during the Civil War -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: professional women and traditional wedlock.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-3898
- ISBN
- 0252025237 (alk. paper)
- 0252068394 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99006380
- OCLC
- 41231197
- Author
- Tracey, Karen, 1961-
- Title
- Plots and proposals : American women's fiction, 1850-90 / Karen Tracey.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-3898