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Women and violence in literature : an essay collection

Title
Women and violence in literature : an essay collection / edited by Katherine Anne Ackley.
Publication
New York : Garland Pub., 1990.

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Book/TextUse in library PN56.5.W64 W6 1990Off-site

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Additional Authors
Ackley, Katherine Anne.
Description
xxi, 325 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1271
Uniform Title
Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1271.
Subject
  • Meredith, George, 1828-1909
  • Women in literature
  • Women and literature
  • Violence in literature
  • Literature, Modern > Psychological aspects
  • Literature, Modern > Psychological aspects
  • Violence in literature
  • Women and literature
  • Women in literature
  • Frau Motiv
  • Frau
  • Gewalt Motiv
  • Gewalt
  • Literatur
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Femmes > Dans la littérature
  • Violence > Dans la littérature
  • Littérature moderne > Aspect psychologique
  • Femmes et littérature
  • Femmes dans la littérature
  • Gewalt (Motiv)
  • Frau (Motiv)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Victims unvanquished: Temple Drake and women characters in William Faulkner's novels / Abby Werlock -- Augusto d'Halmar's Juana Lucero: woman in a trance / Nancy Saporta Sternbach -- "The evil of fulfillment": women and violence in The bluest eye / Karla Alwes -- The self and others: George Meredith's The egoist / Alanna K. Brown -- "Scars can witness": trials by ordeal and Lavinia's body in Titus Andronicus / Karen Cunningham -- A rage to live: the violent life and death of Hedda Gabler / Katherine Anne Ackley -- The Phalaris syndrome: Alain Robbe-Grillet vs. D.M. Thomas / K.J. Phillips -- Stalking the feline female: the significance of hunting in The cub of the panther and The mountain lion / Carol Steinhagen -- Prisoners and refugess: language of violence in The house of Bernarda Alba and During the reign of the Queen of Persia / Mary S. Vasquez -- Rethinking the seventies: women writers and violence / Elaine Showalter -- Attraction and rage: pain and violence in women's recent underground fiction / Edi Bjorklund -- Making rape romantic: a study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" novels / JoAnn Castagna and Robin Radespiel.
ISBN
  • 0824006933
  • 9780824006938
LCCN
89036391
OCLC
  • ocm20056430
  • 20056430
  • SCSB-1742519
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library