Engendering Romance: Women Writers and the Hawthorne Tradition, 18501990,New

Engendering Romance: Women Writers and the Hawthorne Tradition, 18501990,New

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This engrossing book describes how four twentiethcentury women writersCarson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Morrison, and Grace Paleyhave inherited and adapted the classical tradition of American romance fiction.Emily Miller Budick argues that this tradition, exemplified by the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison, is inherently skepticist, questioning whether and how we know reality. It is also sharply critical of the patriarchal bias of American culture, which is understood by these writers as a way of evading or settling philosophical doubt. Analyzing such works as The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, The Portrait of a Lady, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Invisible Man, Budick explores this antipatriarchal critique and shows how it enables the twentiethcentury women romancers to inherit the tradition. In their writings, howeverin McCullers's Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away, Morrison's Song of Solomon and Beloved, and Paley's short storiesthese writers do more than further the concerns of the male authors. They also explore the idea of maternal knowledge and think through alternatives not only to the patriarchal organization of society but to matriarchal constructions as well. Budick offers provocative insights into what it means to inherit a traditionin particular across lines of gender, but also across lines of raceas she discusses the ways these four women writers revise the genre of romance to accommodate the exigencies of modern American society.

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