| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index. |
| Contents |
The sexualization of American culture -- Blood, sex, and the ugly girl -- Refusing middle age -- Sex power -- Inarticulate sex -- Is sex everything? -- Conclusion: sexual exhaustion. |
| Summary |
American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom, Dale Bauer contends. By creating a lexicon of sex expression, many authors explored sexuality as part of a discourse about women's needs rather than confining it to the realm of sentiments, where it had been relegated (if broached at all) by earlier writers. This new rhetoric of sexuality enabled critical conversations about who had sex, when in life they had it, and how it signified. Whether liberating or repressive, sexuality became a potential force for female agency in. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Sex in literature.
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Language and sex.
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Expression in literature.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Sex expression and American women writers, 1860-1940 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bauer, Dale M., 1956- Sex expression & American women writers, 1860-1940. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807832301 0807832308 (DLC) 2008045181 (OCoLC)221141801 |
| ISBN |
9780807887691 (electronic bk.) |
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0807887692 (electronic bk.) |
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9781469605647 (electronic bk.) |
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1469605643 (electronic bk.) |
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0807832308 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780807832301 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0807859060 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780807859063 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780807832301 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780807859063 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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