1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006911030403321

Autore

McKeever, Robert J. <1951- >

Titolo

The United States Supreme Court : a political and legal analysis / Robert J. McKeever

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester New York : Manchester University Press, 1997

ISBN

0-7190-4082-5

Descrizione fisica

XI, 194 p. ; 24 cm

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

I C 315

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454331403321

Autore

Wright Charlotte M.

Titolo

Plain and ugly Janes : the rise of the ugly woman in contemporary American fiction / / Charlotte M. Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-138-87844-8

1-135-70602-6

1-315-05408-6

1-306-34476-X

1-135-70609-3

1-58729-777-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Collana

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Disciplina

813/.54093522

Soggetti

Women in literature

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Ugliness in literature

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature

Body image in literature

Electronic books.



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 2000 by Garland Publishing, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: The Nature of Ugliness; 1. Nineteenth-Century Precedents; 2. Descriptions of Ugliness; Part Two: The Consequences of Ugliness; 3. The Effect of Ugliness on the Self; 4. The Effect of Ugliness on Relations with Others; Part Three: Ugly Women in Contemporary American Fiction; 5. Adjusting the Stereotype; 6. Anger, Sex and Fate; 7. The Rise of the Ugly Woman; 8. Becoming Something Powerful; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature, the "ugly woman," whose roots can be traced to the Old Maid/Spinster character of the nineteenth century. During the 1970's, stories began to appear in which the ugly woman is a figure of power-heroic not in the traditional old maid's way of quiet, passive...