Becoming a Heroine: Reading about Women in Novels

Author/Contributor(s):	Brownstein, Rachel
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	05/19/1994
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Now back in print, this feminist classic explores how women define themselves and their lives in terms of novels. Many of the greatest novels in English have women as their protagonists, and women have always been the novel's most faithful readers. Why is it that fiction and women relate so intimately?