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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817912203321

Autore

Dean Misao

Titolo

Practising femininity : domestic realism and the performance of gender in early Canadian fiction / / Misao Dean

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

1-281-99559-2

9786611995591

1-4426-7871-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 p.)

Collana

Theory / Culture

Disciplina

813.009/352042

Soggetti

Canadian fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Domestic fiction - History and criticism

Women and literature - Canada

Femininity in literature

Sex role in literature

Realism in literature

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Englisch

Kanada

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Introduction: Practising Femininity""; ""1. The Female Emigrant's Guide as the Mending Basket of Domestic Ideology""; ""2. The Broken Mirror of Domestic Ideology: Femininity as Textual Practice in Susanna Moodie's Autobiographical Works""; ""3. Translated by Desire: Romance and Politics in Rosanna Leprohon's Antoinette de Mirecourt""; ""4. Explain Yourself: New Woman Fiction in Canada""; ""5. Voicing the Voiceless: The Practice of 'Self-expression' in Nellie McClung's Fiction and Her Autobiography"";



""6. Femininity and the Real in As for Me and My House""

""Conclusion: Citing and Reciting""""NOTES""; ""WORKS CITED""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""

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