How Long to Read From the Hearth to the Open Road

How Long Does it Take to Read From the Hearth to the Open Road?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read From the Hearth to the Open Road by Barbara F. Waxman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This literary critical book deals exclusively with contemporary fiction by women that focuses on aging of women. It discusses the emergence of a new fictional genre, the novel of ripening or Reifungsroman. This emerging genre about the aging heroine reconceptualizes middle and old age for women, taking it from a formerly stereotypical state of passivity and deterioration (by the hearthside) into one of adventure, growth, self-discovery, self-affirmation, and integration (on the open road). The book contains an extensive bibliography of twentieth-century popular periodical articles on aging (Canadian, American, and British); literary critical articles on aging in the fiction of Doris Lessing, Alice Adams, Paule Marshall, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, May Sarton, and Margaret Laurence; as well as general literary critical works on these authors; and some general (non-literary) studies of aging, often from a feminist framework (such as Simone de Beavoir's The Coming of Age). Using a feminist theoretical approach, with some influence from social literary critics such as Lentricchia and Said, the book surveys, in the first chapter, selected popular magazine articles written over this century. The next chapter analyzes fiction on middle-aged women, in works by Doris Lessing and Alice Adams. Chapter Three analyzes young-old women, in works by Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor, and Paule Marshall. The final chapter looks at frail, or dependent old women, in works by May Sarton and Margaret Laurence. This work should be well received by students and scholars engaged in the study of literary criticism, women's studies in literature, gerontology, the life-cycle in literature, and contemporary women in literature.

How long is From the Hearth to the Open Road?

From the Hearth to the Open Road by Barbara F. Waxman is 232 pages long, and a total of 58,464 words.

This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read From the Hearth to the Open Road Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 19 minutes to read From the Hearth to the Open Road aloud.

What Reading Level is From the Hearth to the Open Road?

From the Hearth to the Open Road is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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