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19th-century American women's novels : interpretative strategies by SUSAN K.HARRIS, Susan K. Harris, Albert Gelpi, Ross Posnock is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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This study proposes interpretive strategies for nineteenth-century American women's novels. Harris contends that women in the nineteenth century read subversively, 'processing texts according to gender based imperatives'. Beginning with Susannah Rowson's best-selling seduction novel Charlotte Temple (1791), and ending with Willa Cather's O Pioneers! (1913), Harris scans white, middle-class women's writing throughout the nineteenth century. In the process she both explores reading behaviour and f
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- Author
- SUSAN K.HARRIS, Susan K. Harris, Albert Gelpi, Ross Posnock
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521382885
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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