04356nam 2200817Ia 450 991097408940332120200520144314.097866138959299781283583473128358347X97802520921070252092104(CKB)2670000000241186(EBL)3414067(SSID)ssj0000711028(PQKBManifestationID)11386533(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711028(PQKBWorkID)10682123(PQKB)11467724(OCoLC)811409948(MdBmJHUP)muse23865(Au-PeEL)EBL3414067(CaPaEBR)ebr10593739(CaONFJC)MIL389592(OCoLC)923495387(MiAaPQ)EBC3414067(Perlego)2382886(EXLCZ)99267000000024118620050404d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeyond the Gibson Girl reimagining the American new woman, 1895-1915 /Martha H. Patterson1st ed.Urbana University of Illinois Press20051 online resource (245 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780252075636 0252075633 9780252030178 0252030176 Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-220) and index.Selling the American new woman as Gibson Girl -- Margaret Murray Washington, Pauline Hopkins, and the new Negro woman -- Incorporating the new woman in Edith Wharton's The custom of the country -- Sui Sin Far and the wisdom of the new -- Mary Johnston, Ellen Glasgow, and the evolutionary logic of progressive reform -- Willa Cather and the fluid mechanics of the new woman.Challenging monolithic images of the New Woman as white, well-educated, and politically progressive, this study focuses on important regional, ethnic, and sociopolitical differences in the use of the New Woman trope at the turn of the twentieth century. Using Charles Dana Gibson's "Gibson Girls" as a point of departure, Martha H. Patterson explores how writers such as Pauline Hopkins, Margaret Murray Washington, Sui Sin Far, Mary Johnston, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and Willa Cather challenged and redeployed the New Woman image in light of other "new" conceptions: the "New Negro Woman, " the "New Ethics, " the "New South, " and the "New China." As she appears in these writers' works, the New Woman both promises and threatens to effect sociopolitical change as a consumer, an instigator of evolutionary and economic development, and (for writers of color) an icon of successful assimilation into dominant Anglo-American culture. Examining a diverse array of cultural products, Patterson shows how the seemingly celebratory term of the New Woman becomes a trope not only of progressive reform, consumer power, transgressive femininity, modern energy, and modern cure, but also of racial and ethnic taxonomies, social Darwinist struggle, imperialist ambition, assimilationist pressures, and modern decay. American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismFeminist fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismFeminism and literatureUnited StatesWomen and literatureUnited StatesAfrican American women in literatureWomen in literatureAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Feminist fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Feminism and literatureWomen and literatureAfrican American women in literature.Women in literature.813.52093522Patterson Martha H.1966-1813550MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910974089403321Beyond the Gibson Girl4366772UNINA