They aren't, until I call them : performing the subject in American literature / by Bollobás, Enikő

Table of Contents: “…Performances of gender compliance (Henry James, Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie; Kate Chopin, The Awakening, 'A Pair of Silk Stockings'; Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth) 108; The performance of cultural codes: the Southern woman (William Faulkner, 'A Rose for Emily'; Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire; Flannery O'Connor, 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find') 120; Some misogynist reversals (Jonathan Swift, 'A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed,' T. …”
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