The end of the novel of love
By: Vivian Gornick.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Love stories, American -- History and criticism; Love stories, English -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries; Women in literature; Closure (Rhetoric)
Description: In this book of new and collected critical essays, Vivian Gornick turns the searching intelligence and honesty of insight that mark her memoirs on the work - and the lives - of writers she admires, among them Jean Rhys, Willa Cather, Christina Stead, and George Meredith. In doing so, she examines a century of novels of love-in-the-Western-world and comes to see that, for most writers, it is the drama of our angry and frightened selves in the presence of love that is our modern preoccupation.