It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens by Louise Westling
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens, Louise Westling explores how the complex, difficult roles of women in southern culture shaped the literary worlds of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor. Tracing the cultural heritage of the South, Westling shows how southern women reacted to the violent, false world created by their men--a world in which women came to be shrouded as icons of purity in atonement for the sins of men. Exposing the actual conditions of women's lives, creating assertive protagonists who resist or revise conventional roles, and exploring rich matriarchal...
Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens by Louise Westling 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.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 19 minutes to read Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens aloud.
Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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