Through the Window, Out the Door: Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion

by Janis P. Stout

Book Overview

This informative and provocative study focuses on the centrality of departure in the texts of five major American women novelists.

An important moment in many novels and poems by American women writers occurs when a central character looks out a window or walks out the door of a house. These acts of departure serve to convey such values as the rejection of constraining social patterns, the search for individual fulfillment, and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081730908X
• ISBN13: 9780817309084
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"