Beyond the Gibson Girl : Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915 /

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Challenging monolithic images of the New Woman as white, well-educated, and politically progressive, this study focuses on important regional, ethnic, and sociopolitical differences in the use of the New Woman trope at the turn of the twentieth century. Using Charles Dana Gibson's "Gibson...

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Autor principal: Patterson, Martha H., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women in literature.
Women and literature.
Feminist fiction, American.
Feminism and literature.
American fiction > Women authors.
American fiction.
African American women in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Feminist.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Femmes et litterature > États-Unis.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Women and literature > United States.
Feminism and literature > United States.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Feminist fiction, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Challenging monolithic images of the New Woman as white, well-educated, and politically progressive, this study focuses on important regional, ethnic, and sociopolitical differences in the use of the New Woman trope at the turn of the twentieth century. Using Charles Dana Gibson's "Gibson Girls" as a point of departure, Martha H. Patterson explores how writers such as Pauline Hopkins, Margaret Murray Washington, Sui Sin Far, Mary Johnston, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and Willa Cather challenged and redeployed the New Woman image in light of other "new" conceptions: the "New Negro Woman," the "New Ethics," the "New South," and the "New China." As she appears in these writers' works, the New Woman both promises and threatens to effect sociopolitical change as a consumer, an instigator of evolutionary and economic development, and, for writers of color, an icon of successful assimilation into dominant Anglo-American culture. Examining a diverse array of cultural products, Patterson shows how the seemingly celebratory term of the New Woman becomes a trope not only of progressive reform, consumer power, transgressive femininity, modern energy, and modern cure, but also of racial and ethnic taxonomies, social Darwinist struggle, imperialist ambition, assimilationist pressures, and modern decay.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (248 pages).
ISBN:9780252092107

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