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The Wilderness Within: American Women Writers and Spiritual Quest
Kristina K. Groover
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Description for The Wilderness Within: American Women Writers and Spiritual Quest
Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 349.
America’s literature is notably marked by a preoccupation with the spiritual quest. Questing heroes from Huck Finn to Nick Adams have undertaken solitary journeys that pull them away from family and society and into a transformative wilderness that brings them to a new understanding of the spiritual world. Women, however, have not often been portrayed as questing heroes. Bound to home and community, they have been more frequently cast as representatives of that stifling world from which the hero is compelled to flee. Are women in American literary texts thus excluded from spiritual experience?
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America’s literature is notably marked by a preoccupation with the spiritual quest. Questing heroes from Huck Finn to Nick Adams have undertaken solitary journeys that pull them away from family and society and into a transformative wilderness that brings them to a new understanding of the spiritual world. Women, however, have not often been portrayed as questing heroes. Bound to home and community, they have been more frequently cast as representatives of that stifling world from which the hero is compelled to flee. Are women in American literary texts thus excluded from spiritual experience?
Kristina K. Groover, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557285577
SKU
V9781557285577
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