Becoming a heroine : reading about women in novels

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Brownstein offers readings of the classics from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf and reflects on the ties binding women readers to literary heroines. Her thesis is that the typical heroine-centered novel encourages girls to see themselves in literary terms, as central characters in their own stories. S...

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Main Author: Brownstein, Rachel M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking Press, 1982.
Subjects:
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Characters > Women.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817.
English fiction > History and criticism.
Heroines in literature.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History.
Women > Books and reading.
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
Héroïnes dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Femmes > Livres et lecture.
English fiction.
English fiction > Women authors.
Women and literature.
Heldin
Romans.
Vrouwen.
Helden (personen)
Engels.
Roman.
Frau.
Geschichte (1810-1925)
Great Britain.
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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