Fleissner, Jennifer.

Women, compulsion, modernity : the moment of American naturalism / Jennifer L. Fleissner. - Chicago : University of Chicago, 2004. - xiv, 338 p.: 23 cm. - Women in culture and society . - Women in culture and society. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-323) and index.

Foreword / Introduction : the "feminization" of American naturalism -- The compulsion to describe : naturalist subjects, naturalist history -- The great indoors : regionalism, feminism, and obsessional domesticity -- A mania for the moment : fadmongering and feminism in Henry James -- The new woman & the old man : sentimetality and "drift" in Dreiser and Wharton -- Saving herself : gender, preservation, and futurity in McTeague -- The rhythm method : unmothering the race in Chopin, Stein, and Grimke. Catharine R. Stimpson -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

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American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Naturalism in literature.
Feminism and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Feminist fiction, American--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.

PS374.N29 / FLE2004

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