Thus we have a character that does not follow the expected path of other young women in similar life circumstances. ... Just one year before the publication of Sula, author Judith Viorst published a revised telling of the Cinderella story (Bressler 142). ... And if, as Virginia Woolf observed, a woman needs "a room of her own," Sula takes it a step further by taking control of an entire house (Bressler 145). ... In 1966, postmodern author Leonoard Cohen's book, Beautiful Losers, demands an end to "genital imperialism" (Cohen 34). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Jane Austen is one of the most prominent women novelists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Out of all her novels, Pride and Prejudice is by far most popular as well as the most critically acclaimed novel. This novel deals with the politics of love and marriage observed in the transition period when the Augustan phase ended and the Victorian Era began. Though, Austen lived during some ground-shaking historic events like the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; she doesn't mention either of the historic events in her various novels. Her speciality has to do more with portrayi...

• Word Count: 2459
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School