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Women, compulsion, modernity : the moment of American naturalism / Jennifer L. Fleissner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Women in culture and societyPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago, 2004.Description: xiv, 338 p.: 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780226253107
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.52093522 22
LOC classification:
  • PS374.N29 FLE2004
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Contents:
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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Books in General collection Books in General collection Mzuzu University Library and Learning Resources Centre PS 374.N29 FLE 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 001161 Available mZulm-001161
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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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