| Voyage in: Fictions of Female: Development Contributor(s): Abel, Elizabeth (Editor), Hirsch, Marianne (Editor), Langland, Elizabeth (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0874512514 ISBN-13: 9780874512519 Publisher: Dartmouth College Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1983 Annotation: This book offers an expanded generic model of the study of female development as seen through 19th and 20th century novels and psychoanalytic research. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 823.009 |
| LCCN: 82040473 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.56" W x 8.62" (1.07 lbs) 374 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Questions of female development shape women's studies in many fields as women seek to define those forces which mold their experiences. Surprisingly, this is the first book to study systematically and from a comparative perspective the female novel of development, or Bildungsroman. Prevailing definitions of the Bildungsroman derive from the conceptions of development based on male experience. The book offers an expanded generic model that incorporates the distinctively female patterns of realization and failed realization which emerge from the limited social opportunities depicted in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel and from the particular features of women's maturation as revealed by recent feminist psychoanalytic research. |