Frances Newman [[electronic resource] ] : Southern Satirist and Literary Rebel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453297403321
• Autore: Wade Barbara Ann
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.52; 813/.52
• Soggetti: Feminism and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Newman, Frances, -1928 -- Criticism and interpretation; Satire, American -- History and criticism; Southern States -- In literature; Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Feminism and literature - History - 20th century - Southern States; Women and literature - History - 20th century - Southern States; Satire, American - History and criticism; Patriarchy in literature; Sex role in literature; English; Languages & Literatures; American Literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Living as a Southern Lady and Literary Rebel; 2. Demythologizing the Southern Lady; 3. Questioning Social Change; 4. Revising Literary Conventions; 5. Experimenting with Novelistic Devices; Notes; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This first biographical and literary assessment of Frances Newman highlights one of the most experimental writers of the Southern Renaissance. Novelist, translator, critic, and acerbic book reviewer ; Frances Newman (1883-1928) was praised by Virginia novelist James Branch Cabell and critic H. L. Mencken. Her experimental novels The Hard-Boiled Virgin (1926) and Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers (1928), have recently begun to receive serious critical attention, but this is the first book-length study to focus both on Newman's life and on her fiction.