Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

by Dorri Beam

Book Overview

Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052176968X
• ISBN13: 9780521769686
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"