Stout, Janis P.

Strategies of reticence : silence and meaning in the works of Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion / Janis P. Stout. - Charlottesville, Va. : University Press of Virginia, 1990. - xii, 228 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-224) and index.

0813912628


Didion, Joan--Criticism and interpretation.
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 --Criticism and interpretation.
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 --Criticism and interpretation.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --Criticism and interpretation.


American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Silence in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Feminism and literature.
Women and literature.

PS374.S54 / S76 1990

813.009/9287