TY - BOOK AU - Springer,Marlene TI - What manner of woman: essays on English and American life and literature T2 - The Gotham library SN - 0814777775 : 0814777791 pbk. AV - PR151.W6 W5 U1 - 820/.93/52 PY - 1977/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - American literature KW - Women and literature KW - English-speaking countries KW - Women in literature KW - Littérature anglaise KW - Histoire et critique KW - Littérature américaine KW - Femmes dans la littérature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The portrayal of women by Chaucer and his age; Ann S. Haskell --; The changing image of woman in Renaissance society and literature; Catherine M. Dunn --; Praising virtuous ladies: the literary image and historical reality of women in seventeenth-century England; David J. Latt --; The portrayal of women in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature; John J. Richetti --; Gender and genre: women in British romantic literature; Irene Tayler and Gina Luria --; Angels and other women in Victorian literature; Marlene Springer --; Marriage perceived: English literature 1873-1941; Carolyn G. Heilbrun --; Images of women in early American literature; Ann Stanford --; Portrayal of women in American literature, 1790-1870; Nina Baym --; They shall have faces, minds, and (one day) flesh: women in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American literature; Martha Banta --; "Combat in the erogenuous zone": women in the American novel between the two world wars; James W. Tuttleton --; Second-class citizenship: the status of women in contemporary American fiction; Martha Masinton and Charles G. Masinton --; "Free in fact and at last": the image of the Black woman in Black American literature; Elizabeth Schultz UR - http://www.archive.org/details/whatmannerofwoma00spririch UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL8045851M ER -