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001 2010010992
003 DLC
005 20141119080738.0
008 100316s2010 enk b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aPS374.W6$bB43 2010
082 00 $a813/.3099287$222
100 1 $aBeam, Dorri.
245 10 $aStyle, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing /$cDorri Beam.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2010.
300 $avii, 260 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v160
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-253) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Highly wrought style -- Florid fantasies : Fuller, Stephens and the 'other' language of flowers -- Sensing the soul : mesmerism, feminism, and highly wrought fiction -- Harriet Prescott Spofford's Philosophy of composition -- Pauline Hopkins' Baroque folds : the styled form of Winona -- Coda.The value of ornament : Gilman and Wharton.
520 $a"Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at how gender determines literary style. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aRomanticism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aFeminism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aWomen authors, American$y19th century$xAesthetics.
650 0 $aStyle, Literary$xSex differences.
650 0 $aAesthetics in literature.
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