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The nature of ugliness. Nineteenth-century precedents: old maids in the works of Louisa May Alcott, Rose Terry Cooke, Rebecca Harding Davis -- Descriptions of ugliness: twentieth-century examples -- The consequences of ugliness. The effect of ugliness on the self -- The effect of ugliness on relations with others -- The ugly woman in contemporary American fiction. Adjusting the stereotype: Flannery O' Connor, Deborah Eisenberg, Alison Lurie, Ann Tyler, Leon Rooke, Doris Betts, Anne Beattie, Tess Gallagher, Russell Banks, Barry Hannah -- Anger, sex and fate: Katharine Anne Porter, Lorrie Moore, Alice Walker, Sarah Bird -- The rise of the ugly woman: Barbara Rex, Louise Erdrich, Peter S. Beagle, Alice Walker, Katherine Dunn, Rebecca Goldstein.
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