Woman's Fiction(English, Paperback, Baym Nina)

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Woman's Fiction(English, Paperback, Baym Nina) is written by Baym Nina and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 025206285X (ISBN 10) and 9780252062858 (ISBN 13).

This reissue of the pioneering and standard book on antebellum women's domestic novels contains a new introduction situating the book in the context of important recent developments in the study of women's writing. Nina Baym considers 130 novels by 48 women, focusing on the works of a dozen especially productive and successful writers. Woman's Fiction is a major-work in nineteenth-century literature, reexamining changes in the literary canon and the meaning of sentimentalism, while responding to current critical discussions of 'the body' in literary texts.