2. Remaking Psyche

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Introduction: The Feminization of Quest-Romance 1
5. 2. Remaking Psyche 22
6. 3. Remembering Molly: Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion 40
7. 4. "A Kind of Quest": Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood 56
8. 5. "The Spark from the Outside World": Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi 76
9. 6. "Happily at Ease in the Dark": Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping 93
10. 7. Shifting Gears: Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here 105
11. 8. Conclusion: Radical Departures 119
12. Notes 125
13. Bibliography 133
14. Index 139