TY - BOOK ID - 77872693 TI - Plain & ugly Janes PY - 2006 SN - 1138878448 1135706026 1315054086 130634476X 1135706093 1587297779 9781587297779 9780877459941 0877459940 0815336527 9781138878440 9781135706029 9781315054087 9781135706098 PB - Iowa City University of Iowa Press DB - UniCat KW - Body image in literature. KW - Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature. KW - Ugliness in literature. KW - American fiction KW - Women in literature. KW - Ugliness as a theme in literature KW - Woman (Christian theology) in literature KW - Women in drama KW - Women in poetry KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77872693 AB - "If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature, the "ugly woman," whose roots can be traced to the Old Maid/Spinster character of the nineteenth century. During the 1970's, stories began to appear in which the ugly woman is a figure of power-heroic not in the traditional old maid's way of quiet, passive... ER -