The Feminization of Quest-Romance : : Radical Departures / / Dana A. Heller.
What happens when a woman dares to imagine herself a hero? Questing, she sets out for unknown regions. Lighting a torch, she elicits from the darkness stories never told or heard before. The woman hero sails against the tides of great legends that recount the adventures of heroic men, legends deemed...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: The Feminization of Quest-Romance
- 2. Remaking Psyche
- 3. Remembering Molly: Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion
- 4. "A Kind of Quest": Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
- 5. "The Spark from the Outside World": Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi
- 6. "Happily at Ease in the Dark": Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
- 7. Shifting Gears: Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here
- 8. Conclusion: Radical Departures
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index