Not in sisterhood
Subtitle: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the politics of female authorship
By: Deborah Lindsay Williams.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.; Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.; Gale, Zona, 1874-1938.; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Women novelists, American -- Biography.; Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Not in Sisterhood investigates an important transitional moment in the history of U.S. women's writing: the uneasy shift from the nineteenth-century model of the "lady author" to some new but undefined alternative. The careers of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather, together with that of their friend and peer Zona Gale, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama, reveal several different strategies for negotiating this unknown terrain.

While Gale made her feminist politics an integral part of her successful novels and plays, Wharton and Cather publicly denied any interest in gender issues or social reforms. Not in Sisterhood shows how the complex intersections of literary and social politics that shaped the world of Wharton, Cather, and Gale are still at work in today's feminist reconstructions of literary history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-218) and index.