The resisting reader : a feminist approach to American fiction /

Fetterley, Judith, 1938-

The resisting reader : a feminist approach to American fiction / Judith Fetterley. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1978. - xxvi, 198 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

On the politics of literature -- Palpable designs: four American short stories: An American dream: "Rip Van Winkle" ; Growing up male in America: "I want to know why" ; Women beware science: "The birthmark" ; A rose for "A rose for Emily" -- A farewell to arms" Hemingway's "resentful cryptogram" -- The great Gatsby: Fitzgerald's droit de seigneur -- The Bostonians: Henry James's eternal triangle -- An American dream: "Hula, hula, " said the witches. Introduction:



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American fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Feminism and literature--History.--United States
Feminist fiction--History and criticism.
Reader-response criticism.
Women in literature.
Mujeres en la literatura.
Feminismo en la literatura.
Roman am�ericain--Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la litt�erature.
F�eminisme et litt�erature.
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
Feministische literatuurkritiek.

PS374.W6 / F4 1978