Radiant Daughters: Fictional American Women

248 Pages·1986·28.158 MB·English

by  Thelma J. Shinn

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Radiant
Daughters
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Radiant
Daughters
FICTIONAL
AMERICAN
WOMEN
Thelma Shinn
J.
CONTRIBUTIONS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES,
NUMBER
66
GREENWOOD
PRESS
NEW YORK WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT LONDON
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shinn, rhclinaj., 1942-
kadiant Daughters.
(Contributions in vvotncn’s studies, ISSN 0147-104X
;
no. 66)
Bibliography; p.
Includes index.
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1. American fiction 2()th century History and
criticism. 2. Women in literature. 3. American
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fiction Women authors History and criticism. I. Title.
II. Series.
PS374.W6S55 1986 813' .54'09352()42 85-27196
ISBN 0-313-25197-5 (lib. bdg. alk. paper)
:
Copyright © 1986 by Thelma Shinn
J.
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 85-27196
ISBN: 0-313-25197-5
ISSN: 0147-104X
First Published in 1986
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Acknowledgments
Sections of this book have previously appeared in earlier forms. For permission to
reproduce materials, we are indebted to the following sources:
“Flannery O’Connor and the Violence of Grace,” Cotitemporary Literature (Winter
1968), 58-73. Reprinted by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press.
“Women in the Novels ofAnn Petry,” Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction 16 (1974),
110-20. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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This book is dedicated to “glittering sons and
radiant daughters”: Ramona, Rebecca, Joe, Jim, and Rachel.
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