A Woman's Point of View — Bibliographical Materials

Ellen Moody

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[This document is a note to the author's Trollope's Comfort Romances for Men: Heterosexual Male Heroism in his Work — GPL.]

I don't agree that most romances are really written from an imagined woman's point of view. They are masculinist a good deal of the time even if heroines are placed at the center of the narrative. Three books which persuasively make the case for the rarity of a genuinely woman's point of view and in what it consists are: Beatrice Didier, L'ecriture-femme (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1981); Nancy Miller, Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing (NY: Columbia UP, 1990), and Margaret Cohen, The Sentimental Education of the Novel (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999).

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