Voyage in: Fictions of Female: Development

Abel, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 0874512514 / ISBN 13: 9780874512519

Edité par Dartmouth College Press, 1983

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Synopsis :

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.

À propos des auteurs: Elizabeth Abel is the John F. Hotchkis Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis and Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow and the editor or coeditor of four collections, most recently, Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism.

Elizabeth Langland, associate professor and chair of the English Department at Converse College, coedited The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development. Walter Gove, professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University, is the editor of Nature and Nurture: The Fundamental Connection and Deviants: The Sociology of Mental Illness.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Voyage in: Fictions of Female: Development
Éditeur : Dartmouth College Press
Date d'édition : 1983
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket