Karen Tracey Boy meets girl. Boy proposes to girl.
Girl refuses proposal.
When the heroine rejects her suitor's initial proposal, she opens up the possibility of renegotiating the terms of the relationship and exploring alternative roles, even questioning the efficacy of marriage itself. Karen Tracey investigates how each of these writers is constrained by her historical circumstances and how she uses her fiction to critique those conditions. Tracey also reconstructs some of the cultural conditions that would have influenced the writing, publishing, and reading of this renegade fiction. 6 x 9 inches.