Modern Domestic Fiction : Popular Feminism, Mass-Market Magazines, and Middle-Class Culture, 1905–1925
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| Title: | Modern Domestic Fiction : Popular Feminism, Mass-Market Magazines, and Middle-Class Culture, 1905–1925 |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Birte Christ |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Feminism, Domestic fiction, Middle class, Women in literature, Women--Books and reading |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9783825360542 9783825373498 |
