The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing

Informationen zum Autor Jean Carol Griffith is Assistant Professor of English at the Wichita State University. Klappentext American regionalism has become a contested subject in literary studies alongside the ubiquitous triad of race! class! and gender. This book argues that regional writing provided Edith Wharton! Ellen Glasgow! and Willa Cather with the means to explore social transformation in a form of fiction already associated with women readers and writers. Zusammenfassung American regionalism has become a contested subject in literary studies alongside the ubiquitous triad of race! class! and gender. This book argues that regional writing provided Edith Wharton! Ellen Glasgow! and Willa Cather with the means to explore social transformation in a form of fiction already associated with women readers and writers.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Griffith, Jean Carol Griffith, Jean Carol/ Scharnhorst Griffith
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2009
• EAN: 9780817316617
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1661-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies