Women, Compulsion, Modernity

Klappentext The 1890s have long been thought one of the most male-oriented eras in American history. But in reading such writers as Frank Norris with Mary Wilkins Freeman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman with Stephen Crane! Jennifer L. Fleissner boldly argues that feminist claims in fact shaped the period's cultural mainstream. "Women! Compulsion! Modernity" reopens a moment when the young American woman embodied both the promise and threat of a modernizing world. Fleissner shows that this era's expanding opportunities for women were inseparable from the same modern developments--industrialization! consumerism--typically believed to constrain human freedom. With "Women! Compulsion! and Modernity!" Fleissner creates a new language for the strange way the writings of the time both broaden and question individual agency. Zusammenfassung Life in America at the turn of the 19th century has been characterised as distinctly male orientated. Fleissner disputes this popular view and uncovers a new understanding of the era through naturalism! the prominent literary style of the time.

Product details

• Authors: Fleissner, Jennifer Fleissner, Jennifer L. Fleissner, Jennifer L Fleissner
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2004
• EAN: 9780226253107
• ISBN: 978-0-226-25310-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture and Society S; Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture and Society; Women in Culture & Society Series WCS (CHUP); Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls