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The woman in the red dress : gender, space, and reading /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gwin, Minrose
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2002]
Subjects:
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Feminism and literature > United States.
Women and literature > United States.
Fathers and daughters in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Women > Books and reading.
Sex role in literature.
Incest in literature.
Women in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Uncle Wiggily's airship
  • Introduction: the woman in the red dress
  • Space travel: reading helplessly
  • Nonfelicitous space and survivor discourse: reading father-daughter incest
  • Gender travels
  • Epilogue: climbing the wall, keeping the house.