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Psyche as Hero: Female Heroism and Fictional Form
The author reviews 17 British and American novels, 12 by women, including work by Woolf, Lessing, Jane Austen, Chopin, Sayers, Morrison, Kingston, Thomas Hardy and Henry James. A highly praised study, favorably compared to the writings of Elaine Showalter.
319 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1987
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July 5, 2023
I read her earlier article (The Labors of Psyche: Toward a Theory of Female Heroism) and really enjoyed it. The prologue of this book is largely overlapping with that article while the ensuing chapters are case studies of 17 modern novels using the framework introduced in the prologue, and they also introduce some new insights of course. Definitely fun at times and meta in all the right spots, but unfortunately I just do not care that much about English and American novels from the 19th and 20th centuries. Also it's kinda outdated feminism/not nearly intersectional enough/perhaps irrelevant by this point ?
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