Working Women in American Literature, 1865-1950

Herausgeber: Gogol, Miriam S.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines working women in realistic and naturalistic literature. By addressing intersecting issues of race and class and including a study of domestic work, it contributes to the fields of multiculturalism, feminism, and working-class studies and to the increasing research interests in these areas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781498546782
• ISBN-10: 1498546781
• Artikelnr.: 52413576

Autorenporträt

Miriam S. Gogol is professor of English at Mercy College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
by Miriam S. Gogol Part I: Naturalism and the Working Woman "The Female Domestic in Naturalistic Fiction
" by Miriam S. Gogol "Sister Carrie
Fashion and the Working Woman in American Realism
" by Irene Gammel Part II: The "New Woman" "Women Doctors in Henry James and William Dean Howells
" by Lara Hubel "Women
Work and Cross-Class Alliances in the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman" by Nancy Von Rosk "Naturalism and the New Woman in Ellen Glasgow's Barren Ground: "How Hard She Had Worked!" by Jessica Schubert McCarthy Part III: Race
Sex
and Class "Work
race
and the performance of gender in Ann Petry's The Street" by Jochem Riesthuis Part IV: Working Women in Drama and Film "Feminism
Sentimentality and Realism in Rachel Crothers' Working-Women Plays" by Anna Andes "Career Women in 1940s Cinema: The Heroine as Executive Editor
" by Pedro Ponce