Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature
| Author | : Deborah Barker |
| Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0838754082 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780838754085 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (085 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature by : Deborah Barker
Download or read book Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature written by Deborah Barker and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In their challenge to a gendered, racialized evolutionary aesthetics as embodied in the female copyist as an icon of cultural reproduction, these women writers enact in a fictional format what many recent feminists address at the theoretical level: a resistance to essentialist definitions of women's nature and to "universal" standards of high culture."--BOOK JACKET.
