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Title The portrayal of woman's sentimental power in American domestic fiction : the novels of Mary Jane Holmes, 1825-1907 / Earl F. Yarington ; with a foreword by Lee Ann Elliott-Westman.
Author Yarington, Earl F. (Earl Frank)
Published Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2007.
Description v, 213 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9780773454385
0773454381

Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-207) and index.
Contents Introduction: Holmes, the rediscovered author -- Canonicity and the exclusion of Holmes -- Sentimentality: its stigma, its function -- Holmes and the nineteenth-century market -- Relational capacity theory -- "Her works shall live".
Subjects (People) Holmes, Mary Jane, 1825-1907 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Subjects (Topics) American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Bib utility control no. 81861709

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