Women, compulsion, modernity : the moment of American naturalism / Jennifer L. Fleissner.
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TextSeries: Women in culture and societyPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago, 2004.Description: xiv, 338 p.: 23 cmISBN: - 9780226253107
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Naturalism in literature
- Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Feminist fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Sex role in literature
- Women in literature
- 813/.52093522 22
- PS374.N29 FLE2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-323) and index.
Foreword / Catharine R. Stimpson -- Introduction : the "feminization" of American naturalism -- 1. The compulsion to describe : naturalist subjects, naturalist history -- 2. The great indoors : regionalism, feminism, and obsessional domesticity -- 3. A mania for the moment : fadmongering and feminism in Henry James -- 4. The new woman & the old man : sentimetality and "drift" in Dreiser and Wharton -- 5. Saving herself : gender, preservation, and futurity in McTeague -- 6. The rhythm method : unmothering the race in Chopin, Stein, and Grimke.
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