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The modern feminine in the Medusa satire of Fanny Fern

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The modern feminine in the Medusa satire of Fanny Fernby James E. Caron.
Author:	Caron, James E.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2024.
Description:	xiii, 217 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Femininity in literature.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41276-9
ISBN:	9783031412769$q(electronic bk.)

The modern feminine in the Medusa satire of Fanny Fern
Caron, James E.

The modern feminine in the Medusa satire of Fanny Fern[electronic resource] /by James E. Caron. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2024. - xiii, 217 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture,2634-6508. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture..

1 Introduction: Fanny Fern and the Mob of Scribbling Women -- 2 Sara Payson Willis Parton's (Comic) Preacher, Fanny Fern -- 3. The Satirist and Her Public -- 4 Satirizing Gender Expectations: Fanny Fern as the Impossible Subject -- 5 Creating Comic Community: Scathing Epithets, Caricature, and Comic Violence -- 6 Constructing Fanny Fern as Satirist -- 7 Fanny Fern's Significance in the American Comic Tradition.

The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern argues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position within the antebellum literary marketplace dominated by women authors of sentimental fiction, writers Nathaniel Hawthorne (in)famously called "the damn mob of scribbling women." The Fanny Fern persona represents a nineteenth-century woman voicing the modern feminine within a laughter-provoking bourgeois carnival, a forerunner of Hélène Cixous's laughing Medusa figure and her theory about écriture féminine. By advancing an innovative theory about an Anglo-American aesthetic, comic belles lettres, Caron explains the comic nuances of Parton's persona, capable of both an amiable and a caustic satire. The book traces Parton's burgeoning celebrity, analyzes her satires on cultural expectations of gendered behavior, and provides a close look at her variegated comic style. The book then makes two first-order conclusions: Parton not only offers a unique profile for antebellum women comic writers, but her Fanny Fern persona also anchors a potential genealogy of women comic writers and activists, down to the present day, who could fit Kate Clinton's concept of fumerism, a feminist style of humor that fumes, that embraces the comic power of a Medusa satire.

ISBN: 9783031412769$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-41276-9doiSubjects--Personal Names:

972579
Fern, Fanny,
1811-1872Subjects--Topical Terms:

179522
Femininity in literature.

LC Class. No.: PS2523.P9

Dewey Class. No.: 817.3

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