Author: W. L. Courtney
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-12-25
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780484767293
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Excerpt from The Feminine Note in Fiction The assumption is that when women write novels they introduce a particular point of view of their own, attack the problems of life from their own angle of vision, and arrive at conclusions not always the same as those which appeal to male novelists. To me the modern history of novelistic literature seems to prove that there is such a thing as' a distinctive feminine style in fiction, something which may be good or bad or neutral, according to circumstances, but, at all events, of a type peculiarly its own. Yet on such a topic all general, propositions are apt to be fallacious, and only the broad tendencies are worth much consideration. Moreover, the man who writes on a subject like this must always bear in mind the difficult and disconcerting fact, that if there is a feminine standpoint, there is also a masculine stand point, and that the latter is as likely to lead to misapprehension as the former. There is a conversa tion in Jane Austen's Persuasion which is singularly appropriate to this discussion. Anne and Captain Harville are arguing on the endless question of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
