Reading Adoption

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-472-03264-8
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

A literary scholar who is an adult adoptee delves into one of the enduring themes of literature - the child raised by other parents. ""Reading Adoption"" artfully combines memoir with literary and feminist scholarship, shedding new light on familiar texts. Engagingly written from Marianne Novy's dual perspectives as critic and adult adoptee, the book explores the ways in which novels and plays portray adoption through careful readings of works by authors from Sophocles to Barbara Kingsolver.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Novy, Marianne

Über Autor(innen)

Marianne Novy is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is author or editor of numerous books, including Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture, Love's Argument: Gender Relations in Shakespeare, and Engaging with Shakespeare: Responses of George Eliot and Other Women Novelists.