LEADER 04356nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910974089403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613895929 010 $a9781283583473 010 $a128358347X 010 $a9780252092107 010 $a0252092104 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241186 035 $a(EBL)3414067 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000711028 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11386533 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711028 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10682123 035 $a(PQKB)11467724 035 $a(OCoLC)811409948 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23865 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3414067 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10593739 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL389592 035 $a(OCoLC)923495387 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3414067 035 $a(Perlego)2382886 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241186 100 $a20050404d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond the Gibson Girl $ereimagining the American new woman, 1895-1915 /$fMartha H. Patterson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aUrbana $cUniversity of Illinois Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (245 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780252075636 311 08$a0252075633 311 08$a9780252030178 311 08$a0252030176 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-220) and index. 327 $aSelling 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. 330 8 $aChallenging 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. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFeminist fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFeminism and literature$zUnited States 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican American women in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFeminist fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFeminism and literature 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 0$aAfrican American women in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 676 $a813.52093522 700 $aPatterson$b Martha H.$f1966-$01813550 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974089403321 996 $aBeyond the Gibson Girl$94366772 997 $aUNINA