Title The American narcissus : individualism and women in nineteenth-century American fiction / Joyce W. Warren.

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1984]
	©1984

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS374.W6 W28 1984	Available	---

Description	xi, 345 pages ; 23 cm.
Series	The Douglass series on women's lives and the meaning of gender
	Douglass series on women's lives and the meaning of gender.
Bibliography	Bibliography: pages 309-331.
Note	Includes index.
Contents	ch. 1. American narcissus: backgrounds of culture -- pt. 1. American literature and the American myth: ch. 2. Transcendentalism and the self: Ralph Waldo Emerson -- ch. 3. Gender of American individualism: Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller -- pt. 2. Woman as fantasy: ch. 4. Solitary man and superfluous woman: James Fenimore Cooper -- ch. 5. Masculine sea: Herman Melville -- ch. 6. Old ladies and little girls: Mark Twain -- pt. 3. Woman as person: ch. 7. Claims of the other: Nathaniel Hawthorne -- ch. 8. Woman takes center stage: Henry James.
Subject	American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American fiction.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- Women authors.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Women and literature.
	United States.
	History.
	Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Feminism and literature.
	Gender identity in literature.
	Gender identity in literature.
	Individualism in literature.
	Individualism in literature.
ISBN	0813510406 : $22.00
	9780813510408