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Modern Domestic Fiction
Popular Feminism, Mass-Market Magazines, and Middle-Class Culture, 1905–1925
American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 229
2012
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Abstract
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | V | ||
| CONTENTS | IX | ||
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | XIII | ||
| LIST OF FIGURES | XV | ||
| INTRODUCTION: MODERN DOMESTIC FICTION | 1 | ||
| 1 Conceptualizing Modern Domestic Fiction: Object of Study and Aims | 6 | ||
| 2 The Cultural Work of Modern Domestic Fiction: Approaches and Theses | 13 | ||
| 3 Selling Popular Feminism: The Authors | 18 | ||
| 4 Modern Domestic Fiction: Overview of Chapters | 26 | ||
| PART I - DOMESTIC FICTION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | 31 | ||
| I: POSITIONING MODERN DOMESTIC FICTION, READING POPULAR FEMINISM | 33 | ||
| 1 Modernism, Re-Canonization, and Reading the Mainstream | 35 | ||
| 2 The “Middlebrow”: Ideological In-Between-ness and Literature as Sentimental Education | 51 | ||
| 3 Domestic Fiction, Sentimentalism, Melodrama | 61 | ||
| 4 Popular Feminism in the Text: A Structure of Feeling | 74 | ||
| 5 The Feminist Context: From Difference to Equality in the 1910s | 84 | ||
| 6 Reading Modern Domestic Fiction in the Popular Magazine | 95 | ||
| PART II - 1905-1915: CRISIS OF COMMUNITY—PROGRESSIVIST FEMINISM | 109 | ||
| II: THE REGIONAL SHORT STORY CYCLE: HILLSBORO PEOPLE AND STORIES OF FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE | 111 | ||
| 1 Women Writers and the Regional Short Story Cycle | 115 | ||
| 2 Reclaiming Regionalism in “At the Foot of Hemlock Mountain” | 124 | ||
| 3 Reclaiming Relational Reading in “A Drop in the Bucket” | 131 | ||
| 4 “Bein’ useful is bein’ alive”: On the Way to Municipal Housekeeping in Friendship Village | 141 | ||
| III: MUCKRAKING AND UTOPIANISM: THE SQUIRREL-CAGE AND ANGEL ISLAND | 159 | ||
| 1 An Education in Facts and Domestic Escapism in The Squirrel-Cage | 167 | ||
| 2 A Muckraker’s Melodrama: Serial Education in The Squirrel-Cage | 177 | ||
| 3 The Third Sphere of Woman: Angel Island as a Text of Feminist Transition | 187 | ||
| 4 “A Full-Blooded, Thrilling Romance”: Selling Angel Island in American Magazine | 201 | ||
| PART III - 1916-1925: CRISIS OF THE SELF - LIBERALIST FEMINISM | 219 | ||
| IV: DOMESTICATING PASSION, POLITICS, AND THE “HIGHBROW”: THE LADY OF KINGDOMS AND THE BRIMMING CUP | 221 | ||
| 1 From Passion to Companionship, From Sexual Desire to Motherly Love | 230 | ||
| 2 Hester Crowell, Hester Prynne, and Sexual Morality | 243 | ||
| 3 Personalizing and Depoliticizing the Political | 247 | ||
| 4 “Middling” the “Highbrow”: Boys’ Books and Country Choirs | 257 | ||
| V: WOMEN BEYOND DOMESTICITY?— A DAUGHTER OF THE MORNING AND THE HOME MAKER | 265 | ||
| 1 A Daughter of the Morning: Class Issues and the Problem of the Guardian Figure | 269 | ||
| 2 The Home-Maker: Sham Existence and Domestic Ideology in Reverse | 280 | ||
| 3 Domesticating Women’s Non-Domestic Work | 290 | ||
| 4 Taking the Radical Edge Off: The Cultural Work of the Companion | 296 | ||
| MODERN DOMESTIC FICTION: CONCLUSION | 315 | ||
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 335 | ||
| I: Dorothy Canfield, Zona Gale, Inez Haynes Irwin: Bibliography of Fictional Works | 335 | ||
| II: Dorothy Canfield, Zona Gale, Inez Haynes Irwin: Complete Bibliography of Secondary Sources | 342 | ||
| III: Works Cited | 349 |
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