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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