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Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development (Culture & Gender) Hardcover - 1993
by Fraiman, Susan
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- Title Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development (Culture & Gender)
- Author Fraiman, Susan
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Columbia Univ Pr, New York
- Date 1993
- ISBN 9780231080002
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Unbecoming Women : British Women Writers and the Novel of Development: (Gender and Culture series)
by Fraiman, Susan
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New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 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.
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Unbecoming Women British Women Writers and the Novel of Development
by Fraiman, Susan; Fraiman, Susan
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Columbia Univ Pr. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 023108000X . 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…
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