Images Of Women In 20th Century American Literature And Culture
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Images Of Women In 20th Century American Literature And Culture
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Author : Janina Corda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-12-09
Images Of Women In 20th Century American Literature And Culture written by Janina Corda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-09 with categories.
Images Of Women
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Author : Barbara Bearden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Images Of Women written by Barbara Bearden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Women categories.
Womanhood In Anglophone Literary Culture
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Author : Robin Hammerman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03-26
Womanhood In Anglophone Literary Culture written by Robin Hammerman and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Taken together, the fourteen essays in this collection contribute to the discourse of social conditions for literary women. The essays examine relevant social, intellectual, and professional questions about the ways in which women writers contributed to conceptions of womanhood in nineteenth and twentieth century Anglophone literary culture. Contributors to this collection describe and examine several nineteenth and twentieth century women writers’ responses to patriarchal assumptions about literary merit in genres including poetry and fiction. Womanhood in Anglophone Literary Culture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspectives will be of special interest to students and faculty of women’s studies and literature written in the English language.
Consumer Culture Material Desires And Images Of Women In American Novels And Art At The Turn Of The 20th Century
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Author : Janna S. Tajibaeva
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Consumer Culture Material Desires And Images Of Women In American Novels And Art At The Turn Of The 20th Century written by Janna S. Tajibaeva and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with American literature categories.
This dissertation examines American consumer culture and its influences on images of women created in art and literature at the turn of the twentieth century. It is divided into four substantive parts and uses the methods and theoretical approaches from four separate disciplines: social history, social theory, literature and art. The study offers a cultural discourse of the period by analyzing the novels of Edith Wharton The House of Mirth, and The Custom of the Country, and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, and also looking into the paintings of American Impressionists and Realists. It interprets the fictional and visual portrayals of women in relation to the issues of display, spectatorship, material desires, and commodity exchange. Chapter I provides a socio-historical overview of the period that gave birth to a modern consumer culture. It focuses on the rise of advertisement industry and the development of department stores that emphasized the acquisition of material goods and personal satisfaction. Furthermore the chapter explores how the commodity culture affected the place and role of women and why they became so susceptible to the demands of consumer capitalism. Chapter II concentrates on Wharton's novels and studies how the fundamentals of the consumer culture shape the relationship between men and women in the society. It employs the paradigm of display and spectatorship to construe the social and psychological realities of the novels' heroines - Lily Bart and Undine Spragg. The chapter centers the argument on the issues of marriage, its price and function, because both women must marry not only to gain respectable social status but also to fulfill their desires for money, material goods, and enjoyments. Chapter III studies Dreiser's novel and explores how society constructs the individual's identity by means of material desires. It draws upon Dreiser's metaphor of the "walled city" an axis of money economy and desires, to demonstrate how the novel's heroine Carrie Meeber appropriates the city's sights and sounds to fuel her consuming desires and dream of attaining happiness. While Chapter II and III investigate literary representations of women, Chapter IV analyzes the range of women's images, from upper class to working class, in the paintings of American Impressionists and Realists. It discusses the iconography of women with regard to issues of fashion, consumption, leisure, and beauty. The chapter shows how the works of American artists, similar to writers of the period, reveal the effects of consumer culture and gender ideology of the period as women displayed, expressed, negotiated, and asserted themselves in a male-dominated culture.
Twentieth Century American Literature Margaret Atwood
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Holdings, Inc
Release Date : 2022-02-01
Twentieth Century American Literature Margaret Atwood written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Infobase Holdings, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The landmark Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism, first published in the 1980s, is one of the most impressive collections of literary criticism ever produced. It is now available in digital format for the first time. This volume of the series provides excerpts and full-length critical essays on the Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood.
Ghetto Images In Twentieth Century American Literature
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Author : Tyrone R. Simpson II
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-01-30
Ghetto Images In Twentieth Century American Literature written by Tyrone R. Simpson II and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-30 with Social Science categories.
This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space.
Portraits Of The New Negro Woman
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Author : Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2007
Portraits Of The New Negro Woman written by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to the New Negro Movement. Due to the mulatta's frequent ability to pass for white, she represented a variety of contradictory meanings that often transcended racial, class, and gender boundaries. In this engaging narrative, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson uses the writings of Nella Larsen and Jessie Fauset as well as the work of artists like Archibald Motley and William H. Johnson to illuminate the centrality of the mulatta by examining a variety of competing arguments about race in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond.
Twenty First Century Latin American Narrative And Postmodern Feminism
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Author : Gina Ponce de Leon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-26
Twenty First Century Latin American Narrative And Postmodern Feminism written by Gina Ponce de Leon and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-26 with Social Science categories.
The authors of Twenty-First Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism argue that, while the more traditional feminists of the 20th century did not recognize in their theoretical and literary work the diversity of women’s experiences, current Latin American post-feminist and post-modern writers are proposing a transgressive new social order, resulting in a more significant cultural resistance to the society they represent. The authors included in this volume show that the narrative of the writers analyzed here is not limited to recognizing issues focused on gender or even sexuality, but also explores the female aspiration of a dignified life and overcoming the dominant structures in their social, political and cultural dimension. The complex female situation of this millennium has become the primary quandary while searching for new forms to represent women in literature. In Twenty-First Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism, the authors confront this dilemma in a sharp, sophisticated and harmonious way, offering a critical text that will be of interest for both specialists and general readers interested in Latin American literature and culture of the recent years.
Images Of The Woman Reader In Victorian British And American Fiction
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Author : Catherine Golden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Images Of The Woman Reader In Victorian British And American Fiction written by Catherine Golden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
"By comparing 'ideologies surrounding women and books' on both sides of the Atlantic, it offers new interpretations of canonical texts in a series of fascinating pairings of British and American texts. . . . The most original aspect of the book is its examination of the woman reader as she appeared in illustrations in popular novels and the way illustration functioned as 'a vehicle for illuminating issues of gender.'"--Emma Liggins, coeditor of Feminist Readings of Victorian Popular Texts, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Lancashire, U.K. "Argues persuasively that female reading practice was highly varied and hotly contested in this period and that this fact gave rise to a wide range of artistic representations. By examining visual as well as verbal material, she distinguishes her analysis and appeals to a wide scholarly audience."--Linda J. Docherty, Bowdoin College For Victorian women, danger lurked between the covers of a book. In an exploration of this controversial notion, Catherine Golden examines women and reading in literary and visual representations in Britain and America. Illustrated with 42 pictures by popular and renowned artists of the era, her book vividly brings to life the world of the 19th- and early 20th-century female reader. While industrialization was transforming print culture, Victorian women on both sides of the Atlantic made great strides in education, and reading came to be seen as a mark of gentility and a means to promote family unity. But at the same time, a perceived association between excessive novel reading and ill health raised alarm: the prospect of unchecked reading coupled with an overactive imagination led critics to debate if, what, when, where, and why middle- and upper-class women should read. Golden presents a concise historical framework of the topic and examines how authors and illustrators responded to the arguments for and against women's reading. She discusses heroines in both popular and intellectual works by writers such as Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, William Makepeace Thackeray, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Henry James, and depictions of the woman reader by prominent illustrators such as George Cruikshank, Jessie Willcox Smith, and Hablot Knight Browne. She also includes biographies of both authors and illustrators and analyzes how they used reading as a literary, expressive, or political device. With its focus on the power of reading and of book illustration as well as its attention to primary materials and gender issues and its discussion of texts widely used in college teaching, this book will be valuable across a range of disciplines that include literature, history, art history, women's studies, and the study of the book. Catherine J. Golden, professor of English at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, is the editor or coeditor of four books, most recently The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Text, Image, and Culture, 1770-1930.
Images Of The Woman Reader In Victorian British And American Fiction
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Author : Catherine J. Golden
language : en
Publisher: Orange Grove Texts Plus
Release Date : 2009-09-24
Images Of The Woman Reader In Victorian British And American Fiction written by Catherine J. Golden and has been published by Orange Grove Texts Plus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-24 with categories.
"By comparing 'ideologies surrounding women and books' on both sides of the Atlantic, it offers new interpretations of canonical texts in a series of fascinating pairings of British and American texts. . . . The most original aspect of the book is its examination of the woman reader as she appeared in illustrations in popular novels and the way illustration functioned as 'a vehicle for illuminating issues of gender.'"--Emma Liggins, coeditor of Feminist Readings of Victorian Popular Texts, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Lancashire, U.K. "Argues persuasively that female reading practice was highly varied and hotly contested in this period and that this fact gave rise to a wide range of artistic representations. By examining visual as well as verbal material, she distinguishes her analysis and appeals to a wide scholarly audience."--Linda J. Docherty, Bowdoin College For Victorian women, danger lurked between the covers of a book. In an exploration of this controversial notion, Catherine Golden examines women and reading in literary and visual representations in Britain and America. Illustrated with 42 pictures by popular and renowned artists of the era, her book vividly brings to life the world of the 19th- and early 20th-century female reader. While industrialization was transforming print culture, Victorian women on both sides of the Atlantic made great strides in education, and reading came to be seen as a mark of gentility and a means to promote family unity. But at the same time, a perceived association between excessive novel reading and ill health raised alarm: the prospect of unchecked reading coupled with an overactive imagination led critics to debate if, what, when, where, and why middle- and upper-class women should read. Golden presents a concise historical framework of the topic and examines how authors and illustrators responded to the arguments for and against women's reading. She discusses heroines in both popular and intellectual works by writers such as Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, William Makepeace Thackeray, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Henry James, and depictions of the woman reader by prominent illustrators such as George Cruikshank, Jessie Willcox Smith, and Hablot Knight Browne. She also includes biographies of both authors and illustrators and analyzes how they used reading as a literary, expressive, or political device. With its focus on the power of reading and of book illustration as well as its attention to primary materials and gender issues and its discussion of texts widely used in college teaching, this book will be valuable across a range of disciplines that include literature, history, art history, women's studies, and the study of the book. Catherine J. Golden, professor of English at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, is the editor or coeditor of four books, most recently The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Text, Image, and Culture, 1770-1930.