Women, compulsion, modernity : the moment of American naturalism /
Fleissner, Jennifer(Jennifer L.)
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press,
c2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: The compulsion to describe : naturalist subjects, naturalist history -- The great indoors : feminism, regionalism, and obsessional domesticity -- A mania for the moment : fadmongering and feminism in Henry James -- The new woman and the old man : sentimentality and "drift" in Dreiser and Wharton -- Saving herself : gender, preservation, and futurity in Mcteague -- The rhythm method : un-mothering the race in Chopin, Stein, and Grimk
American fiction
Naturalism in literature.
Feminism and literature
Women and literature
Feminist fiction, American
Modernism (Literature)
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.