Twentieth-Century American Women's Fiction: A Critical Introduction - Softcover

Reynolds, Guy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312226373 ISBN 13: 9780312226374

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

This wide-ranging introduction to American women writers and their work explores how they have established their identity. Guy Reynolds examines the key writers of the period, both classic and lesser-known authors, and places their works in successive cultural contexts, from the end of the Victorian era and suffrage through the rethinking of feminist politics in the 1960s to the present day. Novels are grouped into genres, and several recurring themes are explored, such as national identity and political engagement.

About this title

About the Author

Guy Reynolds is Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Review

'Reynolds writes accessibly about a spectrum of literary, historical and social issues...readers interested in learning more about the fiction written by American women in this century might well want to let Reynolds introduce them.' - Times Literary Supplement

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0312226373
• ISBN 13: 9780312226374
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 253