Becoming a Heroine: Reading About Women in Novels (Gender & Culture (Paperback)) - Softcover

Brownstein, Rachel M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231100000 ISBN 13: 9780231100007

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1994

Synopsis

-- Elaine Showalter

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Review:

A splendid book, a rare combination of critical brilliance and personal warmth. Brownstein speaks for a generation, perhaps a tradition, of passionate women readers; she stands for literary values that need to be defended against the chilling abstractions of contemporary theory, and that remind us why we read and how we shape our lives by our books.

"A splendid book, a rare combination of critical brilliance and personal warmth. Brownstein speaks for a generation, perhaps a tradition, of passionate women readers; she stands for literary values that need to be defended against the chilling abstractions of contemporary theory, and that remind us why we read and how we shape our lives by our books." -- "Elaine Showalter"

From the Back Cover:

This splendidly provocative book shows how good novels, intelligent heroines, and careful readers are skeptical of the romantic ideal of a perfected, integral self.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0231100000
• ISBN 13: 9780231100007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368