Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism: The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism: The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

(No ratings yet)

Key item features

An exciting addition to the ongoing debate about the place of regionalism in American literary history.

American regionalism has become a contested subject in literary studies alongside the ubiquitous triad of race, class, and gender. The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing enters into the heart of an ongoing debate in the field about the significance of regional fiction at the end of the 19th century. Jean Griffith presents the innovative view that regional writing provided Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and Willa Cather with the means to explore social transformation in a form of fiction already closely associated with women readers and writers.

Griffith provides new readings of texts by these authors; she places them alongside the works of their contemporaries, including William Faulkner and Langston Hughes, to show regionalism's responses to the debate over who was capable of democratic participation and reading regionalism's changing mediations between natives and strangers as reflections of the changing face of democracy.

This insightful work enriches the current debate about whether regionalism critiques hierarchies or participates in nationalist and racist agendas and will be of great interest to those invested in regional writing or the works of these significant authors.
Current price is $55.17
Price when purchased online
  • Free shipping
  • Free 30-day returns

How do you want your item?

How do you want your item?
Ships to
Arrives between May 8 - May 15
|
Sold and shipped by newbookdeals
4.5602910602910605 stars out of 5, based on 1924 seller reviews(4.6)
Report an issue with this seller
Free 30-day returns - in store or online

About this item

Product details

Specifications

Warranty

Customer ratings & reviews

0 ratings|0 reviews
This item does not have any reviews yet