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Modern women, modern work : domesticity, professionalism, and American writing, 1890-1950 /

Focusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian "cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professiona...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sawaya, Francesca
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2004.
Colección:Rethinking the Americas.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. We Other Victorians
  • Chapter I. Domesticity, Cultivation, and Vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Chapter 2 Situated Expertise
  • Chapter 3. Naturalist Sentimentalism and Cultural Authority in Frank Norris and George Santayana
  • Chapter 4. "Going over to the Standard"
  • Chapter 5. Objective Domestic Critique
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.