03867nam 2200937Ia 450 991096121420332120200520144314.09781138878440113887844897811357060291135706026978131505408713150540869781306344760130634476X978113570609811357060939781587297779158729777910.4324/9781315054087(CKB)1000000000704751(EBL)843263(OCoLC)297119368(SSID)ssj0000222105(PQKBManifestationID)11192578(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000222105(PQKBWorkID)10163114(PQKB)10998590(SSID)ssj0000592563(PQKBManifestationID)12270578(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000592563(PQKBWorkID)10735915(PQKB)11487206(MdBmJHUP)muse9207(OCoLC)874149843(Au-PeEL)EBL843263(CaPaEBR)ebr10354587(CaONFJC)MIL565727(OCoLC)897454552(MiAaPQ)EBC843263(Perlego)2956963(EXLCZ)99100000000070475120060407d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPlain and ugly Janes the rise of the ugly woman in contemporary American fiction /Charlotte M. Wright1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Press20061 online resource (153 p.)Literary criticism and cultural theoryFirst published in 2000 by Garland Publishing, Inc.9780815336525 0815336527 9780877459941 0877459940 Includes bibliographical references and index.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"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...Literary criticism and cultural theoryWomen in literatureAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismUgliness in literatureFeminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literatureBody image in literatureWomen in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.Ugliness in literature.Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature.Body image in literature.813/.54093522Wright Charlotte M948560MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961214203321Plain and ugly Janes4354363UNINA