Influencing America's tastes
Subtitle: realism in the works of Wharton, Cather & Hurst
By: Stephanie Lewis Thompson.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Aesthetics.; Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Aesthetics.; Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968 -- Aesthetics.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Realism in literature.; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-221) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Women's Influence and the Transcendental Notion of Selfhood 16; title: 2. Louisa May Alcott and the Anxiety of Influence 42; title: 3. Gentlemen Prefer Modernism 71; title: 4. Edith Wharton's Argument with Modernism 89; title: 5. Willa Gather and the Autobiographical Impulse 123; title: 6. Fannie Hurst: Anatomy of a Popular Writer 155.