Fiction by American women
Subtitle: recent views
By: edited with an introduction by Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua.
Contributors: Bevilacqua, Winifred Farrant, 1947-
Series: National university publications
Publisher: Associated Faculty Press; Associated Faculty Pr Inc
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Port Washington, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Feminist fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Feminism and literature -- United States.; Women and literature -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua; title: The sentimentalists / Mary Kelley; title: Thanatos and Eros : Kate Chopin's The awakening / Cynthia Griffin Wolff; title: "The temptation to be a beautiful object" : double standard and double bind in The house of mirth  / Judith Fetterley; title: The forgotten reaping-hook : sex in My Antonia / Blanche H. Gelfant; title: Ida, a great American novel / Cynthia Secor; title: Winning : Katherine Anne Porter's women / Barbara Harrell Carson; title: The visionary art of Flannery O'Connor / Joyce Carol Oates; title: "A ritual for being born twice" : Sylvia Plath's The bell jar / Marjorie G. Perloff; title: Eruptions of funk : historicizing Toni Morrison / Susan Willis; title: Fear of flying / Joan Reardon.