Becoming a Heroine: Reading about Women in Novels

Becoming a Heroine: Reading about Women in Novels
ISBN-10
0231100000
ISBN-13
9780231100007
Category
Education
Pages
337
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Rachel M. Brownstein

Description

"Brownstein examines how the stories we read influence our notions of how we should live. In fresh, wonderfully nuanced readings of works by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronté, George Eliot, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, she considers woman-centered novels as rewritings of romance, and analyzes the thematic links and echoes that connect these works not only to each other but to women's lives. This splendidly provocative book shows how good novels, intelligent heroines, and careful readers are skeptical of the romantic ideal of a perfected, integral self"--Publisher's description, back cover.

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