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Gender and Genre in Literature Ser.: Three Radical Women Writers : Class and Gender in Meridel le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst by Nora Ruth Roberts (1996, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100815303300
ISBN-139780815303305
eBay Product ID (ePID)677710
Product Key Features
Number of Pages222 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThree Radical Women Writers : Class and Gender in Meridel le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst
SubjectPolitical Ideologies / Radicalism, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women Authors, General
Publication Year1996
TypeTextbook
AuthorNora Ruth Roberts
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science
SeriesGender and Genre in Literature Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight13.6 Oz
Item Length8.8 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN95-043538
Dewey Edition20
Series Volume Number6
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal810.9/9287/0904
Table Of ContentPreface and Acknowledgments * Introduction: Three Radical Women * Marxism and the Feminine Utopia * Delineating a Marxist Critique * The Political Writings of Meridel Le Sueur * Meridel Le Sueur's Feminist Sentence * Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio: From the Thirties * Tillie Olsen's Riddle * Josephine Herbst: The Major Novels * Josephine Herbst: Memory Speaks * The Return to Nature: A Cross-Reading * Works Cited * Index
SynopsisCombining biography, history, and literary theory, this work looks at three of the most significant women writers to emerge from American radicalism of the 1930s. Le Sueur, Olsen, and Herbst were influenced by the Communist movement of the time, but each also forged an independent vision of feminist socialist literary milieu. Drawing on Marxist and post-Marxist theory, and addressing the challenge of such new feminist theorists as Jean Bethke Elshtain, Roberts takes a theoretical approach that encompasses the social vision and feminist practice of the writers and places them in their historical, cultural, and social contexts. The study covers their lives from the turn of the century to the 1970s, with an emphasis on the 1930s; examines their views of the Cold War; links the three to the Progressive tradition; and analyzes their key literary works. Resources for analysis include historical and contemporary theory; excerpts from the radical press of the 1920s and 1930s; and primary materials from the writers themselves, including journals, notes, and unpublished archival materials.
LC Classification NumberPS228.R34R63 1996
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