California Dreams and American Contradictions : Women Writers and the Western Ideal /

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"Monique McDade's study examines a group of diverse women writers of the American West from an intersectional standpoint to understand the progressive narratives the West tells about itself"--

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: McDade, Monique (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Progress in literature.
Literature.
American fiction > Women authors.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Regional.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
West United States.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: California dreaming: a frontier ethic and the American paradox
  • Sentimental liberalism. The "autoethnographic" heroines in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's sentimental novels, Who would have thought it? and The squatter and the don
  • The liberal fantasy: Helen Hunt Jackson's sentimental advocacy in Ramona
  • Challenging progress. Sui Sin Far's genre of intervention: the regional sketch and the "real" in realism
  • An autobiography of Western-American integration: Eva Rutland and her alternative politics of respectability
  • International frontiers. Conclusion: A dream dreamed for too long: Joan Didion's Sacramento and Arlie Russell Hochschild's "Deep story".

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