Becoming a Heroine - Hardcover

Brownstein, Rachel M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670154431 ISBN 13: 9780670154432

Publisher: Viking, 1983

Synopsis

Analyzes the image of women and the theme of the choice of a husband in the classic novels by English authors, such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Virginia Woolf

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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: Viking
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0670154431
• ISBN 13: 9780670154432
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360