Gender and the Writer's Imagination - Schriber, Mary Suzanne
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The concept of woman as having a distinctive nature and requiring a separate sphere of activity from that of man was pervasive in the thinking of nineteenth- century Americans. So dominant was this """"horizon of expectations"""" for woman that the imaginations of our finest novelists were often subverted, even as they attempted to expand the possibilities for women through their fiction. Selecting five American writers-James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Henry James,

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The concept of woman as having a distinctive nature and requiring a separate sphere of activity from that of man was pervasive in the thinking of nineteenth- century Americans. So dominant was this """"horizon of expectations"""" for woman that the imaginations of our finest novelists were often subverted, even as they attempted to expand the possibilities for women through their fiction. Selecting five American writers-James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Henry James,
Autorenporträt
Mary Suzanne Schriber is professor of English at Northern Illinois University.