A noted literary scholar takes a close up look at seven classic English novels by women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts--to explore how the authors portray the major passages and experiences of life. Reprint.An exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries portray the essential experiences of life. For Mendelson--a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University--these classic novels tell life stories that are valuable to readers who are thinking about the course of their own lives. Looking beyond theories to the individual intentions of the authors and taking into consideration their lives and times, Mendelson examines the sometimes contradictory ways in which the novels portray such major passages of life as love, marriage, and parenthood.--From publisher description.A literary scholar takes a close up look at seven classic English novels by women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to explore how the authors portray the major passages and experiences of life.
