Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915 - Brossura

Patterson, Martha H.

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ISBN 10: 0252075633 ISBN 13: 9780252075636

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2008

Riassunto

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 Girls" as a point of departure, Martha H. Patterson explores how writers such as Pauline Hopkins, Margaret Murray Washington, Sui Sin Far, Mary Johnston, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and Willa Cather challenged and redeployed the New Woman image in light of other "new" conceptions: the "New Negro Woman," the "New Ethics," the "New South," and the "New China."

As she appears in these writers' works, the New Woman both promises and threatens to effect sociopolitical change as a consumer, an instigator of evolutionary and economic development, and, for writers of color, an icon of successful assimilation into dominant Anglo-American culture. Examining a diverse array of cultural products, Patterson shows how the seemingly celebratory term of the New Woman becomes a trope not only of progressive reform, consumer power, transgressive femininity, modern energy, and modern cure, but also of racial and ethnic taxonomies, social Darwinist struggle, imperialist ambition, assimilationist pressures, and modern decay.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Martha H. Patterson is an associate professor of English at McKendree University, Lebanon, Illinois.

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Book by Patterson Martha H

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0252075633
• ISBN 13: 9780252075636
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 230