Modern Domestic Fiction - Popular Feminism, Mass-Market Magazines, and Middle-Class Culture, 1905-1925

The nineteenth-century genre of domestic fiction continues to perform important cultural work for women readers in the early twentieth century this is the argument of Modern Domestic Fiction . Discussing texts by Dorothy Canfield, Zona Gale, and Inez Haynes Irwin, this study demonstrates how between 1905 and 1925 domestic fiction took a central role in promulgating popular feminist ideas, creating a mass magazine market geared to women, and shaping new middle-class identity.

Summary

The nineteenth-century genre of domestic fiction continues to perform important cultural work for women readers in the early twentieth century – this is the argument of ‘Modern Domestic Fiction’. Discussing texts by Dorothy Canfield, Zona Gale, and Inez Haynes Irwin, this study demonstrates how between 1905 and 1925 domestic fiction took a central role in promulgating popular feminist ideas, creating a mass magazine market geared to women, and shaping new middle-class identity.

Product details

• Authors: Birte Christ
• Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2012
• EAN: 9783825360542
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-6054-2
• No. of pages: 370
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 218 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 552 g
• Series: American Studies / A Monograph Series; American Studies; American Studies – A Monograph Series; American Studies / A Monograph Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Englisch, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Gender Studies, Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften, Frauenliteratur, Mainstream, Sentimentalismus, Middlebrow, Irwin, Inez Haynes, Kulturgeschichte /20. Jahrhundert, amerikanische Mittelklasse, Gale, Zona, Canfield Fisher, Dorothy, Frauenmagazine, amerikanische Literatur /Moderne, Erste Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (ca. 1900 bis ca. 1950)