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Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels - Interpretative Strategies (Paperback, Revised)
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Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels - Interpretative Strategies (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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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 formulates a
literary history for mainstream nineteenth-century American women's
fiction. Through most of the twentieth century, women's novels of
the earlier period have been denigrated as conventional,
sentimental, and overwritten. Harris shows that these conditions
are actually narrative strategies, rooted in cultural imperatives
and, paradoxically, integral to the later development of women's
texts that call for women's independence. Working with actual
women's diaries and letters, Harris first shows what contemporary
women sought from the books they read. She then applies these
reading strategies to the most popular novels of the period,
proving that even the most apparently retrograde demonstrate their
heroines' abilities to create and control areas culturally defined
as male.
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