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  1. Gender and the writer's imagination
    from Cooper to Wharton
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington

    The concept of woman as having a distinctive nature and requiring a separate sphere of activity from that of man was pervasive in the thinking of nineteenth- century Americans. So dominant was this ""horizon of expectations"" for woman that the... more

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    The concept of woman as having a distinctive nature and requiring a separate sphere of activity from that of man was pervasive in the thinking of nineteenth- century Americans. So dominant was this ""horizon of expectations"" for woman that the imaginations of our finest novelists were often subverted, even as they attempted to expand the possibilities for women through their fiction

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813164182; 0813164184
    Subjects: American fiction; Women in literature; Sex role in literature; Feminism and literature; Women and literature; American fiction; Feminism and literature; Sex role in literature; Women and literature; Women in literature
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
  2. Gender and the writer's imagination
    from Cooper to Wharton
    Author: Schriber, Mary Suzanne
    Published: 1987
    Publisher:  The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813164182; 0813164184; 0813116309; 9780813116303; 0813154227; 9780813154220
    Subjects: American fiction / 19th century / History and criticism; Feminism and literature / United States; Sex role in literature; Women and literature / United States; Women in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American fiction; Feminism and literature; Sex role in literature; Women and literature; Women in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist; American fiction; Women in literature; Sex role in literature; Feminism and literature; Women and literature; Roman; Geschlechterrolle; Geschlechterrolle <Motiv>; Literatur; Geschlechtsunterschied
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    The concept of woman as having a distinctive nature and requiring a separate sphere of activity from that of man was pervasive in the thinking of nineteenth- century Americans. So dominant was this ""horizon of expectations"" for woman that the imaginations of our finest novelists were often subverted, even as they attempted to expand the possibilities for women through their fiction

    [1.] - Construction - James Fenimore Cooper: the point of departure -- - Nathaniel Hawthorne: a pilgrimage to a dovecote -- - [2.] - Confirmation - William Dean Howells: the male imagination at the crossroads -- - Henry James: the summit of the male imagination -- - [3.] - Deconstruction - Edith Wharton: the female imagination & the territory within