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Author Beam, Dorri.

Title Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing / Dorri Beam.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 260 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 160
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 160.
Summary "Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at how gender determines literary style. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Highly wrought style -- 1. Florid fantasies: Fuller, Stephens and the 'other' language of flowers -- 2. Sensing the soul: mesmerism, feminism, and highly wrought writing -- 3. Harriet Prescott Spofford's philosophy of composition -- 4. Pauline Hopkins' Baroque Folds: the styled form of Winona -- 5. Coda: the value of ornament: Gilman and Wharton.
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Subject Kölner Künstlervereinigung Stil.
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.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Romanticism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Romanticism.
Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Feminism and literature.
Women authors, American -- 19th century -- Aesthetics.
Women authors, American.
Aesthetics.
Literary style -- Sex differences.
Literary style -- Sex differences.
Literary style.
Aesthetics in literature.
Aesthetics in literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Beam, Dorri. Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521769686 (DLC) 2010010992 (OCoLC)595738782
ISBN 9780511901836 (electronic book)
0511901836 (electronic book)
9780511780059 (ebook)
0511780052 (ebook)
9780521769686 (hardback)
052176968X (hardback)