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Conflicting stories : American women writers at the turn into the twentieth century / Elizabeth Ammons.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.Description: ix, 234 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 019506030X (acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.4099287 20
LOC classification:
  • PS374.W6 A48 1991
Contents:
Breaking the silence : Iola Leroy -- Writing silence : "The Yellow Wallpaper -- Finding form : narrative geography and The Country of the Pointed Firs -- The limits of freedom : the fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Kate Chopin, and Pauline Hopkins -- Form and difference : Gertrude Stein and Mary Austin -- Audacious words : Sui Sin Far's Mrs. Spring Fragrance -- Art : Willa Cather, the woman writer as artist, and humishuma -- Plots : Jessie Fauset and Edith Wharton -- Slow starvation : hunger and hatred in Anzia Yezierska, Ellen Glasgow, and Edith Summers Kelley -- Jumping out the window : Nella Larsen's Passing and the end of an era.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PS374.W6A48 1991 1 Available 33710000088844

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-225) and index.

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Breaking the silence : Iola Leroy -- Writing silence : "The Yellow Wallpaper -- Finding form : narrative geography and The Country of the Pointed Firs -- The limits of freedom : the fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Kate Chopin, and Pauline Hopkins -- Form and difference : Gertrude Stein and Mary Austin -- Audacious words : Sui Sin Far's Mrs. Spring Fragrance -- Art : Willa Cather, the woman writer as artist, and humishuma -- Plots : Jessie Fauset and Edith Wharton -- Slow starvation : hunger and hatred in Anzia Yezierska, Ellen Glasgow, and Edith Summers Kelley -- Jumping out the window : Nella Larsen's Passing and the end of an era.