{"product_id":"the-story-of-avis-9780813510996","title":"The Story of Avis","description":"One of the most prolific and popular American writers of her time, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is, nearly a century later, once more coming to be considered a major author. The Story of Avis, her most ambitious and successful novel, has long been out of print and will prove a revelation to modern readers. Avis is the story of a larger-than-life heroine, a promising artist, who against her better judgment is persuaded by her lover, Philip Ostrander--a \"new man\"--to marry. The failure of their modern marriage, and in due course of Avis's career, is inevitable. Phelps depicts the turmoil of her characters' inner lives with great sensitivity and with a skill that is striking. A feminist who clearly saw the constraints of traditional gender roles upon women and men, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps was ahead of her own time in post-Civil War America. She remains highly readable today. \"The Story of Avis (1877) will shock any reader who still thinks nineteenth-century American women's fiction is sentimental and pious. This novel is angry, not sentimental; iconoclastic, not pious; it concerns a talented and dedicated painter whose marriage destroys her genius.\"--Choice \"This ornately articulate novel is playful; both kind and hopeful in its vision of the female conundrum. . . . I had intended to speed read  it]. I ready every word.\"--Joyce Bright, Belles Lettres\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carol Farley Kessler, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 5.36w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813510996","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40618876928115,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":66.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_0eb3367d-f7c0-4c6f-ba40-71037f6ba0da.jpg?v=1670424589","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-story-of-avis-9780813510996","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}