In a Closet Hidden: The Life and Work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Brossura

Glasser, Leah Blatt

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ISBN 10: 1558490280 ISBN 13: 9781558490284

Casa editrice: Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 1996

Riassunto

The first literary biography of a much-neglected American writer, this book explores the multiple tensions at the core of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's life and work. A prolific short story writer and novelist, Freeman (1852-1930) developed a reputation as a local colorist who depicted the peculiarities of her native New England. Yet as Leah Blatt Glasser shows, Freeman was one of the first American authors to write extensively about the relationships women form outside of marriage and motherhood, the role of work in women's lives, the complexity of women's sexuality, and the interior lives of women who rebel rather than conform to patriarchal strictures.

In a Closet Hidden traces Freeman's evolution as a writer, showing how her own inner conflicts repeatedly found expression in her art. As Glasser demonstrates, Freeman's work examined the competing claims of creativity and convention, self-fulfillment and self-sacrifice, spinsterhood and marriage, lesbianism and heterosexuality.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Leah Blatt Glasser is dean of first-year studies and lecturer in English at Mount Holyoke College.

Product Description:

Book by Glasser Leah Blatt

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1558490280
• ISBN 13: 9781558490284
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 280