The end of the novel of love

Description:

In this book of new and collected critical essays, Vivian Gornick turns the searching intelligence and honesty of insight that mark her memoirs on the work - and the lives - of writers she admires, among them Jean Rhys, Willa Cather, Christina Stead, and George Meredith. In doing so, she examines a century of novels of love-in-the-Western-world and comes to see that, for most writers, it is the drama of our angry and frightened selves in the presence of love that is our modern preoccupation.

subjects: American Love stories,  Closure (Rhetoric),  English Love stories,  History and criticism,  Love stories, American,  Love stories, English,  Women and literature,  Women in literature,  Amerikaans,  Liebesgeschichte,  English Romance fiction,  Frau (Motiv),  Literatur,  Engels,  Englisch,  Frau,  Liefdesverhalen,  American Romance fiction,  Aufsatzsammlung,  Man-woman relationships in literature,  History,  Love stories, history and criticism,  Femmes et littérature,  Histoire,  Femmes dans la littérature,  Conclusion (Littérature)

Places: English-speaking countries