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(0)Nina Baym
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Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 1
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
©1986
Language
English
Description
Analyzes the plot, setting, characters, themes, and symbolism in Hawthorne's novel, and discusses the purpose of its "Custom-house" portion.
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
For more than a decade Nina Baym has pioneered in the reexamination of American literature. She has led the way in questioning assumptions about American literary history, in critiquing the standard canon of works we read and teach, and in rediscovering lost texts by American women writers. Feminism and American Literary History collects fourteen of her most important essays published since 1980, which, combining feminist perspectives with original...
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
Just as she helped launch the rediscovery of literary texts by American women writers, Nina Baym now uncovers the work of history performed by over 150 writers in over 350 texts. Here she explores a world of important writing unknown even to most specialists. The novels, poems, plays, textbooks, and travel narratives written by women between 1790 and the Civil War defy current theories of women's writing that stress a female domain of the private,...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
"This reissue of the pioneering and standard book on antebellum women's domestic novels contains a new introduction situating the book in the context of important recent developments in the study of women's writing. Nina Baym considers 130 novels by 48 women, focusing on works by a dozen especially productive and successful writers.
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This book recovers the names and works of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others better known such as Willa Cather and Mary Austin Holley. It reveals how the authors showed women making lives for themselves in the West, how they represented the diverse region, and how they represented themselves.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
In 1899 Kate Chopin stunned the literary world with the publication of The Awakening, her tale of a woman who seeks personal fulfillment in a relationship outside of her tradition-bound marriage and household. Controversial in its day, Chopin's pioneering novel served as a touchstone for many modernist works published in its wake and is regarded a landmark work of feminist literature. This collection of Chopin's fiction features the full novel and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
A portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the straitened confines of her domestic situation. Highlights the treatment of marital infidelity and an illicit relationship.
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Language
English
Description
The Lousiana author's pioneering short novel tells the story of a nineteenth-century woman who realizes that her marriage is stifling and restrictive, recognizes her own sexuality, and seeks independence--with devastating consequences. This edition features 17 of her short stories, including her 1898 secret masterpiece, "The storm."
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Series
Language
Español
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Description
Ambientada en la Nueva Inglaterra de los puritanos del siglo XVII, La letra escarlata (1849) narra el terrible impacto que un simple acto de pasión desencadena en las vidas de tres miembros de la comunidad: Hester Prynne, una mujer de espíritu libre e independiente, objeto del escarnio público y condenada a llevar la "A" de "Adúltera"; el reverendo Dimmesdale, un alma atormentada por la culpa aunque digno de la estima general, y Chillingworth,...
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Firmly grounded in the core strengths that have made it the best-selling undergraduate survey in the field, The Norton Anthology of American Literature has been revitalized in this Seventh Edition through the collaboration between three new period editors and five seasoned ones. Under Nina Baym's direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and the entire apparatus to make the Shorter Edition an even better teaching tool for the one-semester...