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Becoming a Heroine Reading about Women in Novels

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ISBN-10: 0140067876

ISBN-13: 9780140067873

Edition: 1984

Authors: Rachel M. Brownstein

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Description:

This splendidly provocative book shows how good novels, intelligent heroines, and careful readers are skeptical of the romantic ideal of a perfected, integral self.
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Book details

List price: $7.95
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 1/3/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 7.00" wide x 5.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Introduction
Being Perfect
My Life in Fiction
An Exemplar to Her Sex
Getting Married: Jane Austen
Thinking It Over
Life as Literature, Revision as Romance
Villette
The Egoist
Daniel Deronda
The Portrait of a Lady
Mrs. Dalloway
Afterword
Postscript
Notes
Index