A Guide to Twentieth-Century Women Novelists

By Kathleen M. Wheeler

Book Overview

Kathleen Wheeler's critical guide analyses, in 135 essays, the narrative practices and stylistic devices of women novelists from all over the English-speaking world. Eleven further chapters focus upon the influence of early psychological writing on fiction, the rise of international English literature, fiction from the rich post-war period, post-structuralist theory, postmodernism and magic realism, and feminist theory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631164936
• ISBN13: 9780631164937
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.5" x 7.0"