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Author:

Huf, Linda.

Title:

A portrait of the artist as a young woman : the writer as heroine in American literature / Linda Huf.

Publisher:

F. Ungar Pub. Co.,

Copyright Date:

c1983

Description:

196 p. : ports. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--United States.
Women artists in literature.
Women authors in literature.
Young women in literature.
Heroines in literature.
Écrits de femmes américains--Histoire et critique.
Écrivaines dans la littérature.
Femmes artistes dans la littérature.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 179-192. Includes index.

Contents:

Introduction: The artist heroine today: a ritual for being born. Ruth Hall !1855): The devil and Fanny Fern -- The story of Avis (1877): scenes from a marriage, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- The awakening (1899): Kate Chopin's crimes against polite society -- The song of the lark (1915): the exception of Willa Cather -- The heart is a lonely hunter (1940): Carson McCullers's young woman with a great future behind her -- The bell jar (1963): the apprenticeship of Sylvia Plath -- The artist heroine today: a ritual for being born.

ISBN:

9780804424066
0804424063

LCCN:

82040263

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)