While the heroes of American literature are out hunting bears, fighting wars or killing whales, the heroines are back home in society. The heroines of American novels are trapped within a social context, and so their stories tell us about life as it was - and is - actually lived. Some heroines choos...

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1. Verfasser:	Wershoven, Carol (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Bowling Green, OH Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press 1993
Schriftenreihe:	Women's studies series
Schlagworte:	Amerikaans Letterkunde Personages Vrouwen Frau Literatur American fiction > History and criticism Heroines in literature Sex role in literature Women and literature > United States Kindfrau USA
Zusammenfassung:	While the heroes of American literature are out hunting bears, fighting wars or killing whales, the heroines are back home in society. The heroines of American novels are trapped within a social context, and so their stories tell us about life as it was - and is - actually lived. Some heroines choose to conform to the standards of the dominant group; others question and confront those in power. Both types challenge society's myths Child brides blindly acquiesce to the demands hidden beneath the myth of endless opportunity and individualism. They take their place in the deal-making that suffuses all relationships, becoming the standard commercial product desired by their men. Sightless and subservient, they are images of arrested development and icons of American romance. As writers trace the pattern of the child bride, the monster within the darling emerges Innocence becomes emptiness and insatiable hunger; passivity becomes a terrible power. The pure girls of Hawthorne and James become the tainted women of Cather and Dreiser and the rapacious sweethearts of Wharton, Fitzgerald and Glasgow
Beschreibung:	311 S.
ISBN:	087972627X 0879726288