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    Self (reliance) and feminine desire: Strategies for engagement in literature(s) written by women 

    Massengale, Kate J. S. (1999)
    Fictional and nonfictional texts by Elizabeth Stoddard, Edith Wharton, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Ellen Glasgow, and Zora Neale Hurston are read against the background of Emersonian ideals of self reliance and friendship. ...
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    Made women: And then there was Eve...Isabel, Tess, Daisy, Brett, Caddy, and Sarah 

    Orr Montoya, Moragh Jean (1992)
    The myth of the disobedient woman, along with patriarchal myths of virginity, provide writers with what appears to be a natural alliance between womanhood and fiction. This alliance, not natural but artificial, is between ...
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    Bawdy talk: The politics of women's public speech in nineteenth-century American literature and culture 

    Levander, Caroline Field (1995)
    Throughout the pages of nineteenth-century American fiction men remain fascinated by the sound of women's speech. Literary depictions of men's intense interest in women's pleasing and distinct utterance occur with a frequency ...
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    Cultures of violence: Racism, sexism and female agency in twentieth-century American fiction 

    Toombs, Veronica Marie (1998)
    Male authors intent on critiquing American racism, specifically William Faulkner and Richard Wright, have been more successful in defining the parameters surrounding the discussion of violence in American society than have ...
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    "No refuge": The woman within/beyond the borders of Henry Adams, Henry James, and others 

    van Oostrum, Duco C. (1994)
    The dissertation investigates whether there is a place of refuge for women characters within and/or beyond American literary texts written by men around the turn of the twentieth century. Besides major and minor texts of ...
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    'You shall hear the nightingale sing on as if in pain': The Philomena myth as metaphor of transformation and resistance in the works of Susan Glaspell and Alice Walker 

    Michalos, Constantina (1996)
    The story of Philomela and Procne has long been a figure of violence in literature. However, male mythologizers write Philomela out of existence, whereas women writers use the myth as a metaphor for female oppression and ...

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    AuthorLevander, Caroline Field (1)Massengale, Kate J. S. (1)Michalos, Constantina (1)Orr Montoya, Moragh Jean (1)Toombs, Veronica Marie (1)van Oostrum, Duco C. (1)AdvisorMinter, David L. (3)Fultz, Lucille P. (1)Isle, Walter W. (1)Morris, Wesley A. (1)Subject
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