Modern domestic fiction
Subtitle: popular feminism, mass-market magazines, and middle-class culture, 1905-1925
By: Birte Christ
Series: American studies - a monograph series -- v. 229; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 229.
Publisher: Winter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9783825360542
Subjects: Domestic fiction; Feminism; History; Women; Books and reading; Women in literature; Women in popular culture; Middle class
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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-370).