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Martha H. PattersonPublication Details
BookUniversity of Illinois Press2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS374.F45 P37 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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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. conceptions: the “New Negro Woman,” the “New Ethics,” the “New South,” and the “New China.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- American fiction — Women authors — History and criticism
- Feminist fiction, American — History and criticism
- American fiction — 19th century — History and criticism
- American fiction — 20th century — History and criticism
- Feminism and literature — United States
- Women and literature — United States
- African American women in literature
- Women in literature
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Contents
- Selling the American new woman as Gibson Girl
- Margaret Murray Washington, Pauline Hopkins, and the new Negro woman
- Incorporating the new woman in Edith Wharton’s The custom of the country
- Sui Sin Far and the wisdom of the new
- Mary Johnston, Ellen Glasgow, and the evolutionary logic of progressive reform
- Willa Cather and the fluid mechanics of the new woman
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- 0252030176
- 9780252030178
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