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Is there a "female Bildungsroman"? Can the story of Elizabeth Bennet's development be yoked to a genre conceived in terms of Wilhelm Meister and David Copperfield? Unbecoming Women unpacks the ideological baggage of the Bildungsroman, and turns to novels of development and conduct books by women for a new poetics of growing up.
In subtle readings of works by Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Elliot, Susan Fraiman argues that a heroine's progress toward masterful selfhood is by no means assured. Focusing on "counternarratives" in which girls do not enter the world so much as flounder on its doorstep, Fraiman suggests that becoming a woman involves de-formation, disorientation, and the loss of authority.
By stressing the rival stories in a single text, Unbecoming Women provides a fresh assessment of the Bildungsroman. Instead of the usual question - "How does the hero of this novel come of age?" - Fraiman asks "What are the divergent developmental narratives at work, and what can they tell us about competing ideologies concerning the feminine?"
Written with grace and theoretical mastery, Unbecoming Women emphasizes the subversive as well as dialectical aspects of a genre long considered homogeneous. The result is a compelling work of literary criticism that, charting female destiny in Georgian and Victorian texts, also post-modernizes the novel of development.
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By stressing the rival stories in a single text, Unbecoming Women provides a fresh assessment of the Bildungsroman. Instead of the usual question - "How does the hero of this novel come of age?" - Fraiman asks "What are the divergent developmental narratives at work, and what can they tell us about competing ideologies concerning the feminine?"
Written with grace and theoretical mastery, Unbecoming Women emphasizes the subversive as well as dialectical aspects of a genre long considered homogeneous. The result is a compelling work of literary criticism that, charting female destiny in Georgian and Victorian texts, also post-modernizes the novel of development.
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- EditoreColumbia Univ Pr
- Data di pubblicazione1992
- ISBN 10 023108000X
- ISBN 13 9780231080002
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine208
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Unbecoming Women : British Women Writers and the Novel of Development (Gender and Culture series)
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First edition. First printing. "Fraiman suggests that becoming a woman involves de-formation, disorientation, and the loss of authority." [from publisher] Includes bibliography and index. Slight sunning to dustjacket spine, else a clean, unmarked copy. Codice articolo 11772
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Unbecoming Women British Women Writers and the Novel of Development
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ISBN 10: 023108000X
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Now in a removable archival protective mylar clear cover. Owner name and date in felt top pen on first page. Copyright date highlighted in yellow. Dust cover has slight lamination lift at bottom of spine, fade to spine, carries 1/2 inch to cover front, crease to dust jacket inside flap. "Is there a "female bildungsroman"? Can the story of Elizabeth Bennet's development be yoked to a genre conceived in terms of Wilhelm Meister and David Copperfield? In "Unbecoming Women", Susan Fraiman unpacks the ideological baggage of the category "bildungsroman", and turns to novels of development and conduct books by women for a new poetics of growing up. Fraiman's careful readings of major novels by Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot, suggest that a heroine's progress toward such a goal is by no means assured: mapping the way to womanhood is not a single, well-marked path but a continual crossroads. "Unbecoming Women" challenges received views about fictions of becoming. "Unbecoming Women" is also about the novel of development as a genre and how women's writing may be posed against the traditional theorists. Instead of the usual question - "How does the hero of this novel come of age?" - Fraiman asks, "What are the divergent developmental narratives at work in this novel, and what can they tell us about competing ideologies concerning the feminine?" Her perceptive treatment of works by women reformulates the genre not as the story of a character but as the story of a cultural moment." ; Culture & Gender; 8.90 X 5.90 X 0.40 inches; 208 pages. Codice articolo 11580
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Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Book and dust jacket are gently used with some minor wear. Tightly bound copy with clean interior having no markings, writing, underlining, or highlighting in margins or text block. Inv. # 10825. Codice articolo 010825
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