She "Too much of water hast": Drownings and Near-Drownings in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Women
Description:
Drowning is a frequent mode of death for female literary characters because of the strong symbolic relationship between female sexuality and water. Drowning has long been a punishment for sexually transgressive women in literature. In the introduction, Chapter 1, I describe the drowning paradigm and analyze drowning scenes in several pre-twentieth century works to establish the tradition which twentieth-century women writers begin to transcend. In Chapter 2, I discuss three of Kate Chopin's wor…
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Date:
December 2001
Creator:
Coffelt, J. Roberta
Partner:
UNT Libraries