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Twentieth-Century American Women’s Fiction

A Critical Introduction

  • Textbook
  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Guy Reynolds
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  • Explores the major genres of women's writing in relation to particular examples

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: the Genealogy of American Women’s Narrative, 1892–1995

    • Guy Reynolds
    Pages 1-10

  3. ‘Sickbed Deathbed Birthbed’

    • Guy Reynolds
    Pages 11-37

  4. Re-making the Home, 1909–33

    • Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Mary Antin
    Pages 38-63

  5. Modernist Geographies

    • Willa Cather, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein
    Pages 64-87

  6. The Interwar Social Problem Novel

    • Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset, Agnes Smedley
    Pages 88-113

  7. ‘There are So Many Horrible Examples of Regional Writers, and the South is Loaded’

    • Eudora Welty, Caroline Gordon, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O’Connor
    Pages 114-145

  8. Dysfunctional Realism

    • Ann Petry, Elizabeth Hardwick, Jean Stafford, Jane Bowles
    Pages 146-167

  9. ‘What’s Happening in America’

    • Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates
    Pages 168-194

  10. Fictions for the Village

    • Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Cynthia Ozick
    Pages 195-218

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 219-253
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About this book

In this book Guy Reynolds offers a wide-ranging introduction to American women writers. He discusses a wide range of authors from Sarah Orne Jewett to Toni Morrison and the common themes and genres that they have covered. He presents detailed readings of both classic and little-known fictions, placing works in the social and historical contexts of their times. Incisive and detailed, this book will interest readers and students in this increasingly important field of study.

About the author

GUY REYNOLDS is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.

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