Working Women in American Literature, 1865-1950 (eBook)

Miriam S. Gogol (Herausgeber)

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2020
184 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4679-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines working women in realistic and naturalistic literature. By addressing intersecting issues of race and class and including a study of domestic work, it contributes to the fields of multiculturalism, feminism, and working-class studies and to the increasing research interests in these areas.

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Working Women in American Literature, 18651950 consists of eight original essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on the subject of working women in late-nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century American literature. The volume examines how the American working woman has been presented, misrepresented, and underrepresented in American realistic and naturalistic literature (18651930), and by later authors influenced by realism and naturalism. Points explored include: the historical vocational realities of working women (e.g., factory workers, seamstresses, maids, teachers, writers, prostitutes, etc.); the distortions in literary representations of female work; the ways in which these representations still inform the lives of working women today; and new perspectives from queer theory, immigrant studies, and race and class analyses.These essays draw on current feminist thought while remaining mindful of the historicity of the context. The essayists discuss important women writers of the period (for instance, Ellen Glasgow, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Rachel Crothers, Willa Cather, and the understudied Ann Petry), as well as canonical writers like Theodore Dreiser, Henry James, and William Dean Howells. The discussions touch on a variety of literary and artistic genres: novels, short stories, other forms of fiction, biographies, dramas, and films. In the introductory essay and throughout the collection, the term ';working women in the United States' is deconstructed; the historical and cultural definitions of ';work,' and the words ';work in America' are redefined through the lens of genders.

Autor

Miriam S. Gogol is professor of English at Mercy College.

Inhalt

Introduction, by Miriam S. Gogol “Sister Carrie, Fashion and the Working Woman in American Realism,” by Irene Gammel“Women Doctors in Henry James and William Dean Howells,” by Lara Hubel “Naturalism and the New Woman in Ellen Glasgow’s Barren Ground: “How Hard She Had Worked!” by Jessica Schubert McCarthy The Street” by Jochem Riesthuis“Career Women in 1940s Cinema: The Heroine as Executive Editor,” by Pedro Ponce

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.7.2020
• Co-Autor: Anna Andes, Irene Gammel, Miriam S. Gogol, Lara Hubel, Jessica McCarthy, Pedro Ponce, Jochem Riesthuis, Nancy Von Rosk
• Zusatzinfo: 9 Illustrations including: - 9 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: American literary realism • American Literature • American Naturalism • American Realism • Gender Studies • labor studies • Twentieth-Century Literature • women’s studies • working women
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-4679-X / 149854679X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4679-9 / 9781498546799