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The feminine sublime : gender and excess in women's fiction
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- Creator
- Barbara Claire Freeman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
- ©1997
- Physical Details
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- ix, 202 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780520208889, 0520208889
- OCLC
- ocm44063455
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-184) and index.
- Introduction: The feminine sublime -- The awakening : waking up at the end of the line -- "Sublime speculations" : Edmund Burke, Lily Bart, and the ethics of risk -- Strange bedfellows : Kant, Shelley, Rhys, and the misogynist sublime -- Love's labor : Kant, Isis, and Toni Morrison's sublime
Subjects
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Women and literature -- United States -- History.
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
- Femininity in literature.
- Sublime, The, in literature.
- Authorship -- Sex differences.
- Feminism and literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Aesthetics, Modern.