Beyond the Gibson Girl : reimagining the American new woman, 1895-1915

Beyond the Gibson Girl : reimagining the American new woman, 1895-1915 /

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Challenging monolithic images of the New Woman as white, well-educated, and politically progressive, this study focuses on important regional, ethnic, and sociopolitical differences in the use of the New Woman trope at the turn of the twentieth century. Using Charles Dana Gibson's "Gibson...

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Main Author: Patterson, Martha H., 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2005
Subjects:
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Feminist fiction, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Feminism and literature > United States.
Women and literature > United States.
African American women in literature.
Women in literature.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Selling the American new woman as Gibson Girl
  • Margaret Murray Washington, Pauline Hopkins, and the new Negro woman
  • Incorporating the new woman in Edith Wharton's The custom of the country
  • Sui Sin Far and the wisdom of the new
  • Mary Johnston, Ellen Glasgow, and the evolutionary logic of progressive reform
  • Willa Cather and the fluid mechanics of the new woman.

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