Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing / Dorri Beam.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 160Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: vii, 260 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780521769686 (cloth)
- American fiction
- Women and literature
- Romanticism
- Feminism and literature
- Women authors, American
- Literary style
- Aesthetics in literature
- -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- -- 19th century -- Aesthetics
- -- Sex differences
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-253) and index.
Introduction: 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.
"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"--
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