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  1. Plain & ugly Janes
    the rise of the ugly woman in contemporary American fiction
    Author: Wright, Charlotte M.
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    "If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and... more

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    "If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature, the "ugly woman," whose roots can be traced to the Old Maid/Spinster character of the nineteenth century. During the 1970s, stories began to appear in which the ugly woman is a figure of power-heroic not in the traditional old maid's way of quiet, passive acc.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781587297779; 1587297779; 9780877459941; 0877459940
    RVK Categories: HU 1819
    Subjects: Roman; Frau <Motiv>; Das Hässliche; Kurzgeschichte
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 136 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Plain & ugly Janes
    the rise of the ugly woman in contemporary American fiction
    Published: [2006]
    Publisher:  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City

    "If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and... more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    "If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature, the "ugly woman," whose roots can be traced to the Old Maid/Spinster character of the nineteenth century. During the 1970s, stories began to appear in which the ugly woman is a figure of power-heroic not in the traditional old maid's way of quiet, passive acc Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: The Nature of Ugliness; 1. Nineteenth-Century Precedents; 2. Descriptions of Ugliness; Part Two: The Consequences of Ugliness; 3. The Effect of Ugliness on the Self; 4. The Effect of Ugliness on Relations with Others; Part Three: Ugly Women in Contemporary American Fiction; 5. Adjusting the Stereotype; 6. Anger, Sex and Fate; 7. The Rise of the Ugly Woman; 8. Becoming Something Powerful; Bibliography; Index.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781587297779; 1587297779; 9780877459941; 0877459940
    Subjects: American fiction; Women in literature; Ugliness in literature; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature; Body image in literature; American fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Feminist; American fiction; Body image in literature; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature; Ugliness in literature; Women in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: Online Ressource (xiii, 136 p.)
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    Originally published: New York : Garland Pub., 2000. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
  3. Plain & ugly Janes
    the rise of the ugly woman in contemporary American fiction
    Author: Wright, Charlotte M.
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa

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    Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
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    2865-5990
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0877459940; 9780877459941
    Other identifier:
    9780877459941
    RVK Categories: HU 1691 ; HU 1819
    Subjects: Women in literature; American fiction; Ugliness in literature; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature; Body image in literature; Women in literature; American fiction; Ugliness in literature; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature; Body image in literature
    Scope: XIII, 136 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Originally published: New York : Garland Pub., 2000