Beyond the Gibson Girl : reimagining the American new woman, 1895-1915 /
Patterson, Martha H.,1966-
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-220) and index.
Selling the American new woman as Gibson Girl -- Margaret Murray Washington, Pauline Hopkins, and the new Negro woman -- Incorporating the new woman in Edith Wharton's The custom of the country -- Sui Sin Far and the wisdom of the new -- Mary Johnston, Ellen Glasgow, and the evolutionary logic of progressive reform -- Willa Cather and the fluid mechanics of the new woman.
American fiction
Feminist fiction, American
American fiction
American fiction
Feminism and literature
Women and literature
African American women in literature.
Women in literature.