Becoming a Heroine: Reading About Women in Novels

by Rachel Brownstein

Overview

— Elaine Showalter

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231100007
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	05/19/1994
Series:	Gender and Culture Series
Edition description:	Columbia University Press Morningside ed
Pages:	337
Product dimensions:	0.82(w) x 6.00(h) x 9.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

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

Reprint of the 1982 original with a new (5 p.) postscript. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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