Plots and Proposals
Subtitle: American Women's Fiction, 1850-90
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780252068393
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Women's studies; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; 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."