The faces of Eve : women in the nineteenth century American novel /
Основен автор: | Fryer, Judith, 1939- |
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Формат: | Книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1976.
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Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Faces of Eve. |
Съдържание:
- 1.
- The myth of America as new world Garden of Eden:
- The Garden
- The American Adam
- The American Eve
- 2.
- The temptress:
- Elsie Venner: the literary convention with psychological trappings
- Beatrice Rappaccini: the literary convention as allegory
- In which time the ambiguities of the dark lady are compounded by the appearance of the pale maiden: Melville's Isabel
- Celia Madden: the temptress as "Greek"
- Hawthorne's Miriam: the temptress as Jew
- Hester Prynne: the dark lady as "deviant"
- 3.
- The American princess:
- The pale maiden
- Daisy Miller
- Milly Theale
- Maggie Verver
- Isabel Archer
- 4.
- The great mother:
- The archetype: Olive Chancellor
- The mother-surrogates
- The neglecters
- The real witch-bitches
- 5.
- The new woman:
- The new myth of Atalanta
- Zenobia: the new woman as tragedy-queen
- The unnatural lady reformers of Boston
- Through the eye of the needle
- Edna Pontellier: the new woman as woman.