Modern Domestic Fiction
Popular Feminism, Mass-Market Magazines, and Middle-Class Culture, 1905–1925
1. Edition, 2012
370 Pages
ISBN: 978-3-8253-7349-8
Product: Ebook
Edition: PDF
Subject: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Series: American Studies – A Monograph Series, Volume No.: 229
Available: 20.12.2012
Keywords:
gender studies, Frauenliteratur, Sentimentalismus, amerikanische Literatur /Moderne, Canfield Fisher, Dorothy, Gale, Zona, Irwin, Inez Haynes, domestic fiction, Kulturgeschichte /20. Jahrhundert, Frauenmagazine, Middlebrow, Mainstream, amerikanische Mittelklasse
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.
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Malie Montagutelli in: Revue française d’études américaines, no. 136 (2013/2), 125ff
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Justyna Włodarczyk in: Polish Journal for American Studies, Vol. 8 (2014), 238ff