The Daughter as Reader: Encounters between Literature and Life

The Daughter as Reader juxtaposes personal narrative with literary criticism to celebrate the ways in which literature enriches and shapes individual experience. Paula Marantz Cohen's lucidly written and compelling autobiographical essays read a variety of literary texts and cultural themes in provocative new ways, illuminated by feminist theory, psychoanalytic criticism, and literary history as well as by her experiences as daughter, sister, wife and mother. A Thomas Wyatt poem illuminates...