ISBN:
9783825360542
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (389 p)
Series Statement:
American Studies - A Monograph Series - Band 229
Series Statement:
American Studies – A Monograph Series v.229
Parallel Title:
Print version Modern Domestic Fiction
DDC:
305.4209/034
Keywords:
Domestic fiction
;
Feminism
;
Middle class
;
Women -- Books and reading
;
Women in literature
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Hauptbeschreibung: 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
Description / Table of Contents:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; LIST OF FIGURES; INTRODUCTION: MODERN DOMESTIC FICTION; 1 Conceptualizing Modern Domestic Fiction: Object of Study and Aims; 2 The Cultural Work of Modern Domestic Fiction: Approaches and Theses; 3 Selling Popular Feminism: The Authors; 4 Modern Domestic Fiction: Overview of Chapters; PART I - DOMESTIC FICTION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; I: POSITIONING MODERN DOMESTIC FICTION, READING POPULAR FEMINISM; 1 Modernism, Re-Canonization, and Reading the Mainstream
Description / Table of Contents:
2 The "Middlebrow": Ideological In-Between-ness and Literature as Sentimental Education3 Domestic Fiction, Sentimentalism, Melodrama; 4 Popular Feminism in the Text: A Structure of Feeling; 5 The Feminist Context: From Difference to Equality in the 1910s; 6 Reading Modern Domestic Fiction in the Popular Magazine; PART II - 1905-1915: CRISIS OF COMMUNITY-PROGRESSIVIST FEMINISM; II: THE REGIONAL SHORT STORY CYCLE: HILLSBORO PEOPLE AND STORIES OF FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE; 1 Women Writers and the Regional Short Story Cycle; 2 Reclaiming Regionalism in "At the Foot of Hemlock Mountain"
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3 Reclaiming Relational Reading in "A Drop in the Bucket"4 "Bein' useful is bein' alive": On the Way to Municipal Housekeeping in Friendship Village; III: MUCKRAKING AND UTOPIANISM: THE SQUIRREL-CAGE AND ANGEL ISLAND; 1 An Education in Facts and Domestic Escapism in The Squirrel-Cage; 2 A Muckraker's Melodrama: Serial Education in The Squirrel-Cage; 3 The Third Sphere of Woman: Angel Island as a Text of Feminist Transition; 4 "A Full-Blooded, Thrilling Romance": Selling Angel Island in American Magazine; PART III - 1916-1925: CRISIS OF THE SELF - LIBERALIST FEMINISM
Description / Table of Contents:
IV: DOMESTICATING PASSION, POLITICS, AND THE "HIGHBROW": THE LADY OF KINGDOMS AND THE BRIMMING CUP1 From Passion to Companionship, From Sexual Desire to Motherly Love; 2 Hester Crowell, Hester Prynne, and Sexual Morality; 3 Personalizing and Depoliticizing the Political; 4 "Middling" the "Highbrow": Boys' Books and Country Choirs; V: WOMEN BEYOND DOMESTICITY?- A DAUGHTER OF THE MORNING AND THE HOME MAKER; 1 A Daughter of the Morning: Class Issues and the Problem of the Guardian Figure; 2 The Home-Maker: Sham Existence and Domestic Ideology in Reverse
Description / Table of Contents:
3 Domesticating Women's Non-Domestic Work4 Taking the Radical Edge Off: The Cultural Work of the Companion; MODERN DOMESTIC FICTION: CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; I: Dorothy Canfield, Zona Gale, Inez Haynes Irwin: Bibliography of Fictional Works; II: Dorothy Canfield, Zona Gale, Inez Haynes Irwin: Complete Bibliography of Secondary Sources; III: Works Cited;
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