Plots and Proposals
Subtitle: American Women's Fiction, 1850-90
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 20, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780252025235
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Women's studies; 19th Century American Novel And Short Story; Women As Authors (American Literature); Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; 19th century; American fiction; Feminism and literature; History; History and criticism; United States; Women Authors; Women and literature
First sentence: IN the introduction I argue that the double-proposal plot is inherently likely to destabilize readers' notions of love and marriage, since by its very structure it calls into question easy cliches of "the right suitor" and "true love."