Description
This work examines the male characters presented in each of the following works: Susan Warners The Wide, Wide World (1850), Fanny Ferns Ruth Hall (1855), Harriet E. Wilsons Our Nig (1859), and Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). These sentimental women authors presented masculine ideals in their literature and have played an important role in the construction of gender in America.
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