Women Novelists

by Kathleen M. Wheeler

Book Overview

Kathleen Wheeler's critical guide analyzes in 135 essays the narrative practices and stylistic devices of fiction from all over the English-speaking world. Eleven further chapters focus on the influence of early psychological writings on fiction, the rise of international English literature, fiction from the rich post-war period (when the novel was supposed to be dead), post-structuralist theory, postmodernism and magic realism, and feminist theory.The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631212116
• ISBN13: 9780631212119
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.6"