The End Of The Novel Of Love by Vivian Gornick

In these essays Vivian Gornick examines a century of novels in which authors have portrayed women who challenge the desire to be swept away by passion. She concludes that love as a metaphor for the making of literature is no longer apt for today's writers, such has the nature of love and romance and marriage changed. Taking the works of authors such as Willa Cather, Jean Rhys, Christina Stead, Grace Paley and Hannah Arendt, Gornick sets out to show how novels have increasingly questioned the inevitability of love and marriage as the path to self-knowledge and fulfilment.

Publisher:	Virago Press
Year:	1999
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9781860496462
Condition:	Good
Description:	Beginning to fox on text page edges.

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SKU: 1603836
Location: Books About Books