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.