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Novels, novelists, and readers : toward a phenomenological sociology of literature
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ISBN: 0791406032 Year: 1991 Publisher: Albany State university of New York press

Labor & desire : women's revolutionary fiction in depression America
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ISBN: 0807863955 0585024820 9780585024820 9780807863954 0807819948 9780807819944 0807843326 9780807843321 9798890864581 Year: 1991 Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press,

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This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals. Arguing that class consciousness was figured through metaphors of gender, Paula Rabinowitz challenges the conventional wisdom that feminism as a discourse disappeared during the decade. She focuses on the ways in which sexuality and maternity reconstruct the "classic" proletarian novel to speak about both the working-class woman and the radical female intellectual. Two well-known novels bracket this study: Agnes Smedley's Daughters of Earth (1929) and Mary McCarthy's The Company She Keeps (1942). In all, Rabinowitz surveys more than forty novels of the period, many largely forgotten. Discussing these novels in the contexts of literary radicalism and of women's literary tradition, she reads them as both cultural history and cultural theory. Through a consideration of the novels as a genre, Rabinowitz is able to theorize about the interrelationship of class and gender in American culture. Rabinowitz shows that these novels, generally dismissed as marginal by scholars of the literary and political cultures of the 1930s, are in fact integral to the study of American fiction produced during the decade. Relying on recent feminist scholarship, she reformulates the history of literary radicalism to demonstrate the significance of these women writers and to provide a deeper understanding of their work for twentieth-century American cultural studies in general.

The alienated reader : women and romantic literature in the twentieth century
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ISBN: 0745002501 9780745002507 Year: 1991 Publisher: Hemel Hempstead Harvester Wheatsheaf

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