2015年8月份GRE考试阅读预测机经,第二弹-智课教育旗下智课教育.pdf

智 课 网 G R E 备 考 资 料 2015年8月份GRE考试阅读预测机经，第二弹-智课教育 旗下智课教育 对于马上要参加GRE考试的考生来说，机经可谓是帮助考生获得高 分的有力保证，那么今天小编为考生分享2015年8月份GRE考试阅读预 测机经，第二弹，助战GRE考试。 想要在GRE考试中一举多得高分的考生，在复习中就避免不了使用 机经来帮助考生增加对GRE考试的了解，那么今天小编为考生友情分享 2015年8月份GRE考试阅读预测机经，第二弹，希望对考生有所帮助。 By far the most popular United States literature of its time was a body of now-neglected novels written between 1820 and 1870 by, for,and about women. According to Nina Baym, who has termed this genre “woman’s fiction,” the massive popularity of these novels claimed a place for women in the writing profession. The novels chronicle the experiences of women who, beset with hardships, find within themselves qualities of intelligence, will, resourcefulness, and courage sufficient to overcome their obstacles. According to Baym, the genre began with Catharine Sedgwick’s New-England Tale (1822), manifested itself as the best-selling reading matter of the American public in the unprecedented sales of Susan Warner’s Wide, Wide World (1850), and remained a dominant fictional type until after 1870. The critical, as opposed to popular, reception of these novels in their own time was mixed. Theoretical opposition by those who saw fiction as a demoralizing and corrupting influence was by no means dead in mid-nineteenth-century America, and popular successes naturally bore a significant proportion of the attack. The moralistic tone of much woman’s fiction did not placate these antagonists; on the contrary, many clerical opponents of the novel thought that women were trying to take over the clergy’s functions and hence attacked all the more fiercely. Similarly, some male authors, disgruntled by the emergence of great numbers of women writers, expressed contempt for the genre. On the other hand, the women had a powerfully ally--their publishers, who not only put these works into print but advertised them widely and enthusiastically. Some few reviewers wrote about these works with attention and respect, distinguishing between the works of the differe