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In this collaborative, innovative history, the rich complexity and diversity of American literature written by women can be appreciated with a new coherence and subtlety. Developing historical, cultural, theoretical, even polemical methods, the volume will advance the future study of American women writers by shaping this ever-evolving field.

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Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic assembles thirteen essays on the intersection of Bakhtin's narrative theory, especially his concept of dialogism. The book explores the dimensions of using Bakhtin for a feminist analysis and discerns the connections between feminist dialogics and cultural materialism. The authors offer various views ranging from studies of ecofeminism, gender theories of novelistic discourse, Bakhtin and French feminism, to...

Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic assembles thirteen essays on the intersection of Bakhtin's narrative theory, especially his concept of dialogism. The book explores the dimensions of using Bakhtin for a feminist analysis and discerns the connections between feminist dialogics and cultural materialism. The authors offer various views ranging from studies of ecofeminism, gender theories of novelistic discourse, Bakhtin and French feminism, to...

Feminist Dialogics examines the structure of four novels (Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, James's The Golden Bowl, Wharton's The House of Mirth and Chopin's The Awakening) through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical framework. The author draws on Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia to show how the interaction of many voices forms the social community of the novel and how the functioning of these voices makes clear statements about the pos...

Feminist Dialogics examines the structure of four novels (Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, James's The Golden Bowl, Wharton's The House of Mirth and Chopin's The Awakening) through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical framework. The author draws on Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia to show how the interaction of many voices forms the social community of the novel and how the functioning of these voices makes clear statements about the pos...

This work overturns traditional conclusions about the work of Edith Wharton, showing that the writer's post-World War I writings are acutely engaged with the cultural debates of her day - from reproductive control, through authoritarian politics, to mass culture and its ramifications.

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In this collaborative, innovative history, the rich complexity and diversity of American literature written by women can be appreciated with a new coherence and subtlety. Developing historical, cultural, theoretical, even polemical methods, the volume will advance the future study of American women writers by shaping this ever-evolving field.

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Analyzing the work of canonical as well as popular writers - including Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, Julia Peterkin, and Fannie Hurst, among others, this work demonstrates that sexualization of American culture was both material and rhetorical.

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