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Gogol, Miriam S.,

Working women in American literature, 1865-1950

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Working women in American literature, 1865-1950Miriam S. Gogol.
other author:	Gogol, Miriam S.,
Published:	Lanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2018.
Description:	1 online resource (186 p.)
Subject:	American literatureHistory and criticism.19th century
Online resource:	click for full text
ISBN:	9781498546782

Working women in American literature, 1865-1950
Working women in American literature, 1865-1950[electronic resource] /Miriam S. Gogol. - Lanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2018. - 1 online resource (186 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Working Women in American Literature, 1865–1950 consists of eight original essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on the subject of working women in late-nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century American literature. The volume examines how the American working woman has been presented, misrepresented, and underrepresented in American realistic and naturalistic literature (1865–1930), and by later authors influenced by realism and naturalism. Points explored include: the historical vocational realities of working women (e.g., factory workers, seamstresses, maids, teachers, writers, prostitutes, etc.); the distortions in literary representations of female work; the ways in which these representations still inform the lives of working women today; and new perspectives from queer theory, immigrant studies, and race and class analyses. These essays draw on current feminist thought while remaining mindful of the historicity of the context. The essayists discuss important women writers of the period (for instance, Ellen Glasgow, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Rachel Crothers, Willa Cather, and the understudied Ann Petry), as well as canonical writers like Theodore Dreiser, Henry James, and William Dean Howells. The discussions touch on a variety of literary and artistic genres: novels, short stories, other forms of fiction, biographies, dramas, and films. In the introductory essay and throughout the collection, the term “working women in the United States” is deconstructed; the historical and cultural definitions of “work,” and the words “work in America” are redefined through the lens of genders.

ISBN: 9781498546782Subjects--Topical Terms:

176106
American literature
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PS173.W6 W67

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/3522 23

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