Engendering Romance: Women Writers And The Hawthorne Tradition, 1850-1990

Describes how four 20th-century women writers have inherited and adapted a tradition of American romance. Analyzing fiction by Faulkner and others, this work goes on to explain how women have updated the genre to include alternatives to matriarchal (as well as patriarchal) constructions.

• | By (Author): Emily Miller Budick
• | Publisher: Yale University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 29, 1994
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 300 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0300055579
• | ISBN-13: 9780300055573