The Portrayal of Woman's Sentimental Power in American Domestic Fiction: The Novels of Mary Jane Holmes, 1825-1907 [Hardcover]

Earl F. Yarington (Author), Lee Ann Elliott-Westman (Foreword)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0773454381 | ISBN-13: 978-0773454385 | Publication Date: June 30, 2007

This book explores the rediscovery of the fiction written by Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907) and examines the contrasting factors that made her work popular in the nineteenth century, but virtually unknown during the twentieth century. Cultural poetics and feminism, which established a critique on how late nineteenth- and twentieth-century critics decontextualized Holmes' work is the critical emphasis of this study. The theory of this study examines aspects of relational capacity that popular women writers present and that which their works are based on, and which enables them to relate to their culture and readers.

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Review

"... Dr. Yarington's approach emphasizes a contextual reading and questions the values and expectations prescribed in the literary field that is often driven by elitist masculine doctrine that may exclude and dismiss others." - Professor Youngsook Jeong, West Chester University of Pennsylvania"

About the Author

Earl Frank Yarington III is Assistant Professor of Writing and Literature at Cheyney University of Pennysylvania

Product Details

• Hardcover: 213 pages
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr (June 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0773454381
• ISBN-13: 978-0773454385
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds

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