Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism

(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)

by Jennifer L. Fleissner

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226253104

ISBN13:9780226253107

Release Date:June 2004

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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Feminist Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Women Authors

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