dc.contributor.author | Fleissner, Ward | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-26T18:54:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-26T18:54:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-05 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.sewanee.edu/handle/11005/21740 | |
dc.description | Abstract only is available for this thesis. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Wilder Tower tells the story of a young woman from the Southern aristocracy who goes to work in an all-male newsroom in 1979. Two fellow reporters strive to win her—a romantic poet born into the wrong century and a sexually voracious war veteran—both drawn to her vulnerability and latent passion. Complications ensue, violently disrupting the status quo, with tragic consequences. Two narrators present the newsroom drama: an impulsive male colleague obsessed with the Civil War, and an older woman with a lifetime of thwarted ambitions and bitter relationships. The novel’s events precisely follow the timeline of the Iran hostage crisis, 444 days that haunted the American psyche and still resonate today. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of the South | en_US |
dc.subject | School of Letters Thesis 2020 | en_US |
dc.subject | American literature - 1970s, 20th century | en_US |
dc.subject | Iran hostage crisis, 1979-1981 | en_US |
dc.subject | Sexism in workplace | en_US |
dc.subject | Journalism | en_US |
dc.subject | American Civil War legacy | en_US |
dc.subject | Dual-narrator fiction | en_US |
dc.title | Wilder Tower: A Novel | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |