| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 136 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Garland Pub., 2000. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature, the "ugly woman," whose roots can be traced to the Old Maid/Spinster character of the nineteenth century. During the 1970s, stories began to appear in which the ugly woman is a figure of power-heroic not in the traditional old maid's way of quiet, passive acc. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Ugliness in literature.
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Ugliness in literature. |
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature.
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature. |
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Body image in literature.
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Body image in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Plain and ugly Janes |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wright, Charlotte M. Plain & ugly Janes. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2006] 0877459940 9780877459941 (DLC) 2006044606 (OCoLC)67375155 |
| ISBN |
9781587297779 (electronic book) |
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1587297779 (electronic book) |
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9780877459941 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0877459940 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0877459940 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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