Communities of Women (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Nina Auerbach
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, Gender roles, Self, Literature, Friendship, Novelists, Feminism, Women’s issues, Women, Stereotypes, Women’s movement, Societies
Form and Content
Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction traces the presence and development of the idea of communities of women in nineteenth and twentieth century novels by both men and women writers in England and America in order to trace the expansion of women’s freedom in literature, if not in life. In her search for these communities, Nina Auerbach employs provocative and original pairings and readings of texts and authors, ranging from Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott to Henry James and George Gissing.
Auerbach notes that while initiation into society...
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