The Women Novelists (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Women Authors
| Author: | R. Brimley Johnson | ISBN: | 9781411457935 |
| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble | Publication: | November 8, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Barnes & Noble | Language: | English |
| Author: | R. Brimley Johnson |
| ISBN: | 9781411457935 |
| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble |
| Publication: | November 8, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Barnes & Noble |
| Language: | English |
This 1919 volume features essays on four women novelists: Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. Johnson argues that women writers have contributed to literature qualities lacking in writing by men. Chief among these qualities is a natural proclivity to domestic themes. He also finds the female sense of morality more highly developed than that of male writers, and women’s sense of humor to be more subtle.
This 1919 volume features essays on four women novelists: Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. Johnson argues that women writers have contributed to literature qualities lacking in writing by men. Chief among these qualities is a natural proclivity to domestic themes. He also finds the female sense of morality more highly developed than that of male writers, and women’s sense of humor to be more subtle.
