Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure (Feminist Issues : Practice, Politics, Theory)
Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr
Published: November 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780813914367
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women's studies; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Women As Authors (American Literature); Women As Authors (English Literature); English; Literary Criticism; USA; English fiction; English-speaking countries; American fiction; Feminism and literature; History and criticism; Women authors
First sentence: The shelves of criticism are crowded with attempts to classify, anatomize, codify the novel, the genre apparently beyond all others resistant to such attempts.