Unholy Loves (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Joyce Carol Oates
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Stream of consciousness
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: Woodslee, New York
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, Novelists, Colleges or universities
- Locales: New York, Woodslee, NY
Characters Discussed
Brigit Stott, a professor of English and the only novelist at the relatively prestigious Woodslee University, 256 miles north of New York City. Thirty-eight years old, thin, sharp-featured, and attractive in a mysterious way, Brigit has written two novels that have attained minor success, but her current work remains a tumble of notes and sketches. Separated from her abusive husband, whom she married when she was twenty-two years old, she begins an intense love affair with a musician on campus, just when she had hoped to fall in love with the great visiting...
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