| Description |
1 online resource (182 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-178) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : women artists, exceptional and representative lives -- Tragedy, sisterhood and revenge : Mme de Staël's Corinne or Italy -- A voice from the margins : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- History, art, and fiction : Anna Banti's Artemisia -- Getting loose : women and narration in Alice Munro's Friend of my youth -- The work of faith in the stories of Grace Paley. |
| Summary |
"Focusing on literary works by Mme de Stael, George Eliot, Anna Banti, Alice Munro, and Grace Paley, Deborah Heller examines how women writers over the past two centuries have represented the challenges of being both a woman and an artist."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Fiction -- Women authors. |
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Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Women and literature.
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Women and literature. |
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Women artists in literature.
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Women artists in literature. |
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Women authors in literature.
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Women authors in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1800-2000 |
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1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heller, Deborah, 1939- Literary sisterhoods. Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2006276080 |
| ISBN |
9780773572423 (electronic book) |
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0773572422 (electronic book) |
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0773529098 |
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9780773528222 |
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9780773529090 |
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0773528229 |
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