附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-401) and index.
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER I: Dixie's Diadem; CHAPTER II: Augusta Jane Evans: Paradise Regained; CHAPTER III: Grace King: That Great Mother Stream Underneath; CHAPTER IV: Kate Chopin: The Life Behind the Mask; CHAPTER V: Mary Johnston: The Woman Warrior; CHAPTER VI: Ellen Glasgow: The Perfect Mould; CHAPTER VII: Frances Newman: The World's Lessons; CHAPTER VIII: Margaret Mitchell: The Bad Little Girl of the Good Old Days; CHAPTER IX: Conclusion: Tomorrow Is Another Day; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
摘要:From the mid-nineteenth century through at least the first half of the twentieth, the southern code of appropriate feminine behavior required that women depend on sources outside themselves for sustenance, direction, and expression. The chivalric ideal that placed the southern lady on a pedestal often created within her gracious and gentle exterior a turmoil of frustration, confusion, and resentment.This concept of upper middle-class, white southern womanhood forms an important part of the imaginative expression of the southern women writers whose works and lives form the subject matter of thi.
