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"Women and Fiction": The Character of the Woman Writer and Women's Literary History

Garnai, Anna
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1682638875673669

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2023, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Ohio University, English.
This thesis analyzes the relationship of female novelists to women’s literary history through a study of the use of the woman writer character across five novels published in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Women writer characters and the metafictional texts they produce inside these novels reflect common threads across women’s literary history, providing a way to categorize these novels not only by the gender of their authors but also by their engagement with this character—and by extension with this specific vein of women’s literary history. The novel, which has undergone several transformations across genres, has been accused of feminization, while also being used to categorize the work of female novelists as outside of the Anglo-American canon. Each of the five novels included in this project reflect these literary biases through metafictional texts that are similarly restricted by socially constructed boundaries of oppressive systems, including gender, race, and class.
Nicole Reynolds (Advisor)
64 p.
American Literature; British and Irish Literature; Literature; Modern Literature; Womens Studies
women writers; women's literary history; Louisa May Alcott; Sylvia Plath; Julia Alvarez; Sally Rooney; Zakiya Dalila Harris; fiction; metafiction; sentimental fiction; millennial novel

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  • Garnai, A. (2023). "Women and Fiction": The Character of the Woman Writer and Women's Literary History [Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1682638875673669

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Garnai, Anna. "Women and Fiction": The Character of the Woman Writer and Women's Literary History. 2023. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1682638875673669.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Garnai, Anna. ""Women and Fiction": The Character of the Woman Writer and Women's Literary History." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1682638875673669

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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