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The Voyage in. Fictions of Female Development.
Marianne Hirsch
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Description for The Voyage in. Fictions of Female Development.
Paperback. This book offers an expanded generic model of the study of female development as seen through 19th and 20th century novels and psychoanalytic research. Editor(s): Abel, Elizabeth; etc. Num Pages: 374 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780874512519
SKU
V9780874512519
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