Writing for Immortality
Subtitle: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 15, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780801894015
Subjects: History -- Americas -- United States; Literature & Fiction -- Books & Reading -- Women Writers & Feminist Theory; Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Criticism & Theory; Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- European; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- Classics; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- History & Criticism; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Gender Studies; Nonfiction -- Women's Studies -- Women Writers; Reference -- Writing
First sentence: Near the beginning of her first novel, Anne (1880), Constance Fenimore Woolson describes the central problem for her young heroine: Anne never analyzed herself at all.