Single lives : modern women in literature, culture, and film /

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"Single Lives is a collection of singleness studies essays from the interdisciplinary humanities that explores the last two hundred years of literature and popular media by, about, and for single women in the US and the UK. Independent women have always been a center around which social anxieti...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fama, Katherine (Editor ), Lagerwey, Jorie (Editor ), Williams, Andreá N., Clark, Jennifer S., DeWolfe, Elizabeth, Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, Mastandrea, Martina, Celello, Kristin, Kania, Ursula, Liggins, Emma
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Single women > United States > Public opinion.
Single women > Great Britain > Public opinion.
Single women in literature.
Single women in motion pictures.
Femmes seules > États-Unis > Opinion publique.
Femmes seules > Grande-Bretagne > Opinion publique.
Femmes seules dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Great Britain.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: situating single lives
  • PART I Singles Studies: archives and methods
  • Chapter 1 Searching for Singles: archival approaches for singleness studies and black women's collections
  • Chapter 2 Reclaiming Single Women's Work: gender, melodrama, and the processes of adaptation in the best of everything
  • Chapter 3 Recovering Single Biography: Jane Armstrong tucker, illness, and the single life
  • PART II Familiar Figures: representing and reforming the single woman
  • Chapter 4 Becoming Single: gidget "betwixt and between"
  • Chapter 5 F. Scott Fitzgerald and "The Sinking Ship of Future Matrimony" the unmarried flapper in literature and on screen
  • Chapter 6 Neither Betwixt nor Between: divorced mothers in the united states, 1920-1965
  • Chapter 7 Serves One: exploring representations of female singleness in American cookbooks
  • PART III Singles at Home domestic labors
  • Chapter 8 Feeling "Like a Queen" later-life single women at home in modern American short fiction
  • Chapter 9 "Spinsters' Rest"? the discomforts of home in british women's short stories of the 1920s to the 1940s
  • Chapter 10 All the Single Nannies: reforming elite domesticity and the cultural imaginary
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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