Research Catalog

Title

Sharing secrets : nineteenth-century women's relations in the short story / Christine Palumbo-DeSimone.

Author

Palumbo-DeSimone, Christine, 1964-

Publication

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, [2000], ©2000.

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Description

176 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "In this book, Palumbo-DeSimone considers the place of American women's short fiction in nineteenth-century literary and popular culture. Resisting the narrow focus on content prevalent in feminist criticism, the book instead explores the long-overlooked role of short-story structure in women's popular fiction.".
• "The study reveals how the female world ultimately defined what constituted a "story" for nineteenth-century women, and presents a way for today's reader to approach these sometimes puzzling works of short fiction."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
• English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
• English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
• Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century
• Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Female friendship in literature
• Short stories, American > Women authors > History and criticism
• Short stories, English > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-173) and index.

Contents

1. "Bold, Frank, and Truthful": "Great Books," Encoded Meanings and Nineteenth-Century Women's Short Stories -- 2. "Family Secrets": The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Women's Short Stories -- 3. "In the Privacy of Our Own Society": Writing Female Friendship as Story -- 4. Picking Up "Other Women's Destinies": Nineteenth-Century Women's Community Stories.

ISBN

0838638406 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99053350

OCLC

• ocm42726110
• SCSB-3866223

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries