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'''A Quick Question of the History of Women and Novels''' | '''A Quick Question of the History of Women and Novels''' | ||
When most people think of a novel written by a woman, they think of a long drawn out romance story. While there is nothing wrong a long drawn out romance story, it is stereotypical to put female writers into the romance box. The history of the novel wouldn't be complete without the question of gender. Nothing ever really is. Diane Long Hoeveler asks the question, "Can the history of the novel be rewritten so that women writers are given their proper status even though, for the most part, women produced works that have been largely denigrated or buried by historians of the novel?" (Hoeveler 1) The world may never know. | When most people think of a novel written by a woman, they think of a long drawn out romance story. While there is nothing wrong a long drawn out romance story, it is stereotypical to put female writers into the romance box. The history of the novel wouldn't be complete without the question of gender. Nothing ever really is. Diane Long Hoeveler asks the question, "Can the history of the novel be rewritten so that women writers are given their proper status even though, for the most part, women produced works that have been largely denigrated or buried by historians of the novel?" (Hoeveler 1) The world may never know. | ||