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Modern women, modern work : domesticity, professionalism, and American writing, 1890-1950 / Francesca Sawaya.

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Focusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian "cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professiona...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Sawaya, Francesca
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2004.
Series:Rethinking the Americas.
Subjects:
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Women > Employment > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Authorship > Sex differences > History > 20th century.
Women authors, American > Biography.
Women in literature.
American literature.
American literature > Women authors.
Authorship > Sex differences.
Women and literature.
Women authors, American.
Women > Employment.
United States.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. We Other Victorians
  • Chapter I. Domesticity, Cultivation, and Vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Chapter 2 Situated Expertise
  • Chapter 3. Naturalist Sentimentalism and Cultural Authority in Frank Norris and George Santayana
  • Chapter 4. "Going over to the Standard"
  • Chapter 5. Objective Domestic Critique
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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