Dreams, Visions and Realities : An anthology of short stories by turn-of-the-century women writers.
Title:
Dreams, Visions and Realities : An anthology of short stories by turn-of-the-century women writers.
Author:
Forward, Stephanie.
ISBN:
9781847142641
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (199 pages)
Series:
Late Victorian and Early Modernist Women Writers
Contents:
Contents -- Series Editors' Introduction -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Mandrake Venus -- A White Night -- The City of Blood -- Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story -- An Engagement -- The Hour of Her Life -- 'The World's Slow Stain' -- The Quicksand -- The Man in the Scented Coat -- A Cowl in Cracow -- The Yellow Wall-paper -- The Yellow Drawing-Room -- The Revolt of 'Mother' -- The Storm -- Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's Wedding: A Christmas Story -- The Game that wasn't Cricket -- A Bird on its Journey -- Biographical Notes -- Sources.
Abstract:
This anthology introduces stories written by British and American Women from 1877 to 1910. The collection and the detailed, authoritative, introduction and notes, will enable the twenty-first-century reader to explore the themes and techniques these women developed as the Victorian was superseded by a new, Modernist, sensibility. Authors covered include Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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