Female Inheritors of Hawthorne's New England Literary Tradition
Description:
Nineteenth-century women were a mainstay in the New England literary tradition, both as readers and authors. Indeed, women were a large part of a growing reading public, a public that distanced itself from Puritanism and developed an appetite for novels and magazine short stories. It was a culture that survived in spite of patriarchal domination of the female in social and literary status. This dissertation is a study of selected works from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mary E. Wi…
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Date:
August 1994
Creator:
Adams, Dana W. (Dana Wills)
Partner:
UNT Libraries