Narrative Feminine Identity and the Appearance of Woman in Some of the Shorter Fiction of Goethe, Kleist, Hawthorne, and James (Women's Studies)
Martin (German language and literature, U. of Glasgow) argues that women characters in the short fiction speak and act with more independence and authority than their male authors seem prepared to acknowledge in their own voices. She also demonstrates the common ground between German and American literature in the 19th century, bypassing questions of influence to identify family resemblances of characters and plots across literary generations and linguistic borders. Her study is developed from her 1996 doctoral thesis for Emory University. The text is double spaced. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
