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Author:   M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.263kg
ISBN:  

9781476672823

ISBN 10:   1476672822
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   30 April 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents Introduction: Once or Twice Upon a Time Chapter 1. Dear Elinor, Dear Marianne: ­Letter-Writing, Marriage Prospects and Women’s Roles in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and Elinor and Marianne by Emma Tennant Chapter 2. Looking for Mr. Right Darcy: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Its Multiple Rewritings Chapter 3. The Madwoman in the Attic and Other Family Secrets: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and The French Dancer’s Bastard by Emma Tennant Chapter 4. Beyond Wuthering Heights: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Windward Heights by Maryse Condé and Heathcliff: The Return to Wuthering Heights by Lin ­Haire-Sargeant Chapter 5. “In a Land Where Inequity Is Searched Out, and Punished in the Sight of Rulers and People”: Adultery, Religion and Women’s Roles in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and John Updike’s “The Scarlet Letter Trilogy” Chapter 6. The Proud Father of Four Little Women: Womanhood, Patriarchy and the Civil War in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and March by Geraldine Brooks Chapter 7. Last Night I Dreamt I Saw Rebecca Again: Lesbianism, Female Sexuality and Motherhood in Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Mrs. de Winter by Susan Hill and Rebecca’s Tale by Sally Beauman Conclusion: The End? Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo’s work has appeared in Ad Americam, Contemporary Legend, Americana, Clepsydra, RAEI, The Grove, and NeoAmericanist, among other publications. She currently teaches at UNED, Universidad Isabel I and Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Madrid, Spain).

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