Defying Domesticity: Steinbeck’s Critique of Gender Politics of the Postwar Generation in East of Eden
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...................................................................................................................... iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................... iv DEDICATION .................................................................................................................... v INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................... 1 CATHY TRASK: THE DEVIANT DEMON..................................................................... 8 LIZA HAMILTON: THE DOMESTIC FACADE ........................................................... 23 ABRA BACON: THE NEW WOMAN............................................................................ 33 CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................. 45 WORKS CITED................................................................................................................ 48
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