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Second stories : the politics of language, form, and gender in early American fictions

Title
Second stories : the politics of language, form, and gender in early American fictions / Cynthia S. Jordan.
Author
Jordan, Cynthia S.
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1989.

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Description
xv, 242 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Gender & American culture
Uniform Title
Gender & American culture.
Subject
  • 1700-1899
  • Geschichte 1770-1880
  • American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 18th century > History and criticism
  • Sex role in literature
  • Patriarchy in literature
  • Fathers in literature
  • Authority in literature
  • Social structure in literature
  • Language and languages in literature
  • Language and languages
  • Language
  • languages (study discipline)
  • language (general communication)
  • 18.06 Anglo-American literature
  • Language and languages
  • American fiction
  • Authority in literature
  • Fathers in literature
  • Language and languages in literature
  • Patriarchy in literature
  • Sex role in literature
  • Social structure in literature
  • Patriarchalismus
  • Prosa
  • Letterkunde
  • Amerikaans
  • Sekserol
  • Maatschappij
  • Gender roles
  • USA
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A Fatherly "character" : Franklin's autobiography -- Second thoughts and a second story : Brackenridge's Modern chivalry -- "The Folly of precipitate conclusions" : Brown's wieland -- Two sides to every story : Cooper's The Last of the mohicans -- Detecting the second story : Poe's tales -- Inhabiting the second story : Hawthorne's houses -- Telling the whole story : Melville's Pierre.
ISBN
  • 0807818399
  • 9780807818398
LCCN
88027661
OCLC
  • ocm18441310
  • 18441310
  • SCSB-1724407
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library