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‘Modernist’ Women Writers and Narrative Art

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  • © 1994

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  1. Kathleen Wheeler

    1. University of Cambridge, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: The Dragon of St Cyril

    • Kathleen Wheeler
    Pages 1-18

  3. Excavating Meaning in Willa Lather’s Novels

    • Kathleen Wheeler
    Pages 19-50

  4. Kate Chopin: Ironist of Realism

    • Kathleen Wheeler
    Pages 51-76

  5. The Attack on Realism: Edith Wharton’s In Morocco and ‘Roman Fever’

    • Kathleen Wheeler
    Pages 77-98

  6. Style as Characterisation in Jean Rhys’ Novels

    • Kathleen Wheeler
    Pages 99-120

  7. Dramatic Art in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’

    • Kathleen Wheeler
    Pages 121-140

  8. The Multiple Realities of Stevie Smith

    • Kathleen Wheeler
    Pages 141-161

  9. Jane Bowles: That Modern Legend

    • Kathleen Wheeler
    Pages 162-181

  10. Conclusion: The ‘Voice of Silence’ Speaks

    • Kathleen Wheeler
    Pages 182-188

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 189-220
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This book is an examination of the fiction of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Stevie Smith, Katherine Mansfield and Jane Bowles, with a view to clarifying the narrative strategies these women adopt to establish, in varying degrees, a critique of realism and its hidden dualistic, patriarchal assumptions about life, literature, and society. While examining the literary conventions and the innovations of various texts, Kathleen Wheeler is careful to respect the particularity and individuality of each of these writers.

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