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Embroidering the scarlet A : unwed mothers and illegitimate children in American fiction and film /

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Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the "fallen woman" from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child. Interweaving her...

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Main Author: Ellerby, Janet Mason (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Unmarried mothers in literature.
Illegitimate children in literature.
Unmarried mothers in motion pictures.
Illegitimate children in motion pictures.
Ellerby, Janet Mason.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General.

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