LEADER 03652oam 2200841I 450 001 9910454331403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-138-87844-8 010 $a1-135-70602-6 010 $a1-315-05408-6 010 $a1-306-34476-X 010 $a1-135-70609-3 010 $a1-58729-777-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315054087 035 $a(CKB)1000000000704751 035 $a(EBL)843263 035 $a(OCoLC)297119368 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000222105 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11192578 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000222105 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10163114 035 $a(PQKB)10998590 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000592563 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12270578 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000592563 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10735915 035 $a(PQKB)11487206 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843263 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9207 035 $a(OCoLC)874149843 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1596528 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843263 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354587 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL565727 035 $a(OCoLC)897454552 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000704751 100 $a20130331d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPlain and ugly Janes $ethe rise of the ugly woman in contemporary American fiction /$fCharlotte M. Wright 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (153 p.) 225 0 $aLiterary criticism and cultural theory 300 $aFirst published in 2000 by Garland Publishing, Inc. 311 $a0-8153-3652-7 311 $a0-87745-994-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $a"If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature, the "ugly woman," whose roots can be traced to the Old Maid/Spinster character of the nineteenth century. During the 1970's, stories began to appear in which the ugly woman is a figure of power-heroic not in the traditional old maid's way of quiet, passive... 410 0$aLiterary criticism and cultural theory 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aUgliness in literature 606 $aFeminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature 606 $aBody image in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aUgliness in literature. 615 0$aFeminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature. 615 0$aBody image in literature. 676 $a813/.54093522 700 $aWright$b Charlotte M.$0948560 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454331403321 996 $aPlain and ugly Janes$92449533 997 $aUNINA