The New Woman and the Aesthetic Opening: Unlocking Gender in Twentieth-Century Texts.(Book review)

From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: Wilkinson, Lynn R. | Copyright information

* The New Woman and the Aesthetic Opening: Unlocking Gender in Twentieth-Century Texts. Ed. Ebba Witt-Brattstrom. Sodertorn Academic Studies 20. Huddinge: Sodertorns hogskola, 2004. Pp. xiv + 227.

The sixteen essays collected in The New Woman and the Aesthetic Opening: Unlocking Gender in Twentieth-Century Texts focus on the intersection of gender, recent literary theory, and modernist aesthetics in a variety of literary texts ranging from Ibsen's A Doll's House to the d...

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