Download or read book Impossible Women written by Valerie Rohy and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. The romance of the real : The Blithdale romance and The Bostonians -- 2. The reproduction of meaning : language, oedipality, and The Awakening -- 3. Modernist perversity : the repetition of desire in The Sun also rises -- 4. Oral narratives : "race" and sexuality in Their eyes were watching God -- 5. Love's substitutions : Elizabeth Bishop and the lie of language.