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Book-length Studies of Gail Godwin's Novels
Moving On: The
Heroines of Shirley Ann Grau, Anne Tyler, and Gail Godwin
by Susan S. Kissel
Published by Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1996 |
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The Evolving
Self in the Novels of Gail Godwin
by Lihong Xie
Published by Louisiana State University
Press
1995 "Lihong Xie has placed
all admirers of Gail Godwin's fiction in her debt by insightfully
demonstrating how Godwin's heroines, like the author herself, refuse
to let fashionable cynics discourage them from taking the female
self seriously . . . Not least, Dr. Xie illuminates the subtlety,
craft, and sophistication of [Godwin's] work . . . All readers of
southern literature will enjoy and profit from Dr. Xie's acute and
sensitive reading of Godwin's fiction."
--Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Emory University |
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Gail
Godwin
by Jane Hill
Twayne's United
States Authors Series
Published by Twayne, New
York, 1992 |
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Escaping the
Castle of Patriarchy: Patterns of Development in the Novels of Gail Godwin
by Kerstin Westerlund
Published by Uppsala, 1990, Distributor, Almqvist & Wiksell International,
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Biographical and
Critical Studies about Gail Godwin
(a selection by the author)
"Gail Godwin," Encyclopedia Britannica, 2004.
born June 18, 1937, Birmingham, Ala., U.S.
in full Gail Kathleen Godwin
American author of fiction about personal freedom in man-woman relationships
and the choices women make.
In childhood Godwin lived with her divorced mother, a writer and college
literature teacher who was the model for some of Godwin's strong female
characters. Godwin studied at Peace Junior College, the University of North
Carolina (B.A., 1959), and the University of Iowa (M.A., 1968; Ph.D., 1971). She
wrote about women smothered by marriage in the violent novel The
Perfectionists (1970) and Glass People (1972), which features a wife
prevented from ever making decisions.
The protagonist of Godwin's widely admired The Odd Woman (1974) is a
college teacher who attempts to come to terms with her family and her married
lover. The three principal characters of A Mother and Two Daughters
(1982) are personally close yet grow in separate ways to self-fulfillment.
Godwin also wrote Violet Clay (1978), The Finishing School (1985),
A Southern Family (1987), Father Melancholy's Daughter (1991), and
The Good Husband (1994). In Evensong (1999), a sequel to Father
Melancholy's Daughter, Godwin examines family ties and religious faith.
Citations:
MLA style:
"Gail Godwin." Encyclopędia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopędia Britannica Premium
Service. 30 Mar. 2004 http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=98883.
APA style:
Gail Godwin. Encyclopędia Britannica. Retrieved March 30, 2004, from
Encyclopędia Britannica Premium Service. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=98883
Britannica style:
"Gail Godwin" Encyclopędia Britannica from Encyclopędia Britannica Premium
Service. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=98883 [Accessed March 30, 2004].
"Gail Godwin," Who's Who in America, 2004.
Weeks, Carl Solana.
"Gail Godwin (18 June 1937-)"
105-9 in American Novelists Since World War II, Second Series, ed. James
E. Kibler, Jr., Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol.6. Detroit: Gale
Research, 1980.
"Gail Godwin,
1937-"
Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 69 [focuses primarily on the novels The Finishing School, A Southern
Family, and Father Melancholy's Daughter; see CLC, Vols. 5,8, 22,
and 31, for discussion of earlier novels.]
"Gail
Godwin,"
Contemporary Authors, New Revision
Series, Vol. 43 [profile of the author and discussion of her works through 1991.]
"Gail
Godwin,"
Current Biography, October 1995
[an interestingly written bio and overall survey of the author, which covers
her work through 1994.]
"Gail Godwin," by Jane Hill,
Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 234. [a recent thoughtful assessment of Godwin's collected
short fiction], 2000.
Studies
of Gail Godwin's three most recent novels
"Pas de D(i)eux: Duplicitious Synthesis in Gail Godwin's Father Melancholy's
Daughter,
by Kerstin Westerlund-Shands, The Southern
Quarterly, Spring 1993.
"Fore-telling, Fore-told: Storytelling in Gail Godwin's
The Good Husband, by Kerstin Westerlund-Shands, The Southern Quarterly, Winter, 1997.
"For Better For Worse: Attractive Nuisances and Unifying
Tension in Gail Godwin's Evensong, by Kerstin Westerlund-Shands, North
Carolina Literary Review, October 2000.
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