Name: A Portrait of the Lady in Modern American Literature
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A Portrait of the Lady in Modern American Literature

Poor Little Rich Girl

Edited By: Aimee Pozorski

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This collection of fifteen original essays and a reprint of a classic essay reconsiders the figure of the woman in distress in canonical American texts. In taking up the question “What does a woman want?” it finds answers in artistic endeavour, political agency, and independence.

A Portrait of the Lady in Modern American Literature is a collection of fifteen original essays, and a reprint of a classic essay, that reconsiders…

A Portrait of the Lady in Modern American Literature is a collection of fifteen original essays, and a reprint of a classic essay, that reconsiders the figure of the woman in distress in canonical American texts. Approached from the method of close reading and the theoretical perspective of gender theory, these essays look at the forgotten women at the heart of such beloved works as The Tragic Muse, The Awakening, The Age of Innocence, The Great Gatsby, Machinal, Passing, The Sound and the Fury, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and The Hours. In taking up the famous question “What does a woman want?” this collection finds some answers in artistic endeavour, political agency, freedom, and – above all – independence.

Aimee Pozorski is Professor of English and Director of English Graduate Studies at Central Connecticut State University, USA. She is author of Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (2011) and Falling After 9/11: Crisis in American Art and Literature (2014). She has edited Roth and Celebrity (2012) and the Critical Insights volume on Philip Roth (2013), and co-edited Roth after 80 (2016). She is currently working on a monograph entitled AIDS-Trauma and Politics.

Erin Dayton, Heidi Eilenberger, Susan Gilmore, Emily Kane, Jennifer Lavoie, William Lorusso, MJ Martinez, Chris Moore, Melanie Perry, Laura Sobolewski, Jennifer Vignone