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Secondary heroines in nineteenth-century British and American novels /

Taking up works by Samuel Richardson, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, among others, Jennifer B. Camden examines the role of "secondary heroines" in early British and American novels. By showing that they are a site for the displaced anxieties produced...

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Основен автор: Camden, Jennifer.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ℗♭2010.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Secondary heroines in nineteenth-century British and American novels.
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Secondary Heroine and the Origins of the Novel; 2 Scott and the Origins of Historical Romance; 3 Cooper's "Man without a Cross": Wealth, Race, and Religion; 4 Magawisca's Missing Arm: Absence and Replacement in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie; Conclusion: Why Does the Historical Romance Make Us Want What We Can't Have?; Bibliography; Index.