A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, which treats the nineteenth-century realists, this work analyzes the writing of major women writers of the early twentieth century—Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Ellen Glasgow.The author sees the Demeter-Persephone myth as central to these writers' thematics, but interprets the myth in terms of the historical transitions taking place in turn-of-the-century America. Donovan focuses on the changing relationship between mothers and daughters—in particular upon the "new women's" rebellion against the traditional women's culture of their nineteenth-century mothers (both literary and literal). An introductory chapter traces the male-supremacist ideologies that formed the intellectual climate in which these women wrote.Reorienting Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow within women's literary traditions produces major reinterpretations of their works, including such masterpieces as Ethan Frome, Summer, My Antonia, Barren Ground, and others.

After the Fall: The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow

Literature & Fiction

Donovan, Josephine

United States

Penn State University Press

A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, which treats the nineteenth-century realists, this work analyzes the writing of major women writers of the early twentieth century—Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Ellen Glasgow.
The author sees the Demeter-Persephone myth as central to these writers' thematics, but interprets the myth in terms of the historical transitions taking place in turn-of-the-century America. Donovan focuses on the changing relationship between mothers and daughters—in particular upon the "new women's" rebellion against the traditional women's culture of their nineteenth-century mothers (both literary and literal). An introductory chapter traces the male-supremacist ideologies that formed the intellectual climate in which these women wrote.
Reorienting Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow within women's literary traditions produces major reinterpretations of their works, including such masterpieces as Ethan Frome, Summer, My Antonia, Barren Ground, and others.

Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726

Classics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Drawing on Jewett's diaries and letters, Donovan examines the life and writings of the nineteenth-century New England writer who wrote the critically acclaimed The Country of the Pointed Firs

Sarah Orne Jewett (Modern Literature Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

UNKNO

A critical study of 19th century women writers of New England, (orig. pub. 1983) evaluates the originality of the group that included Harriet Beecher Stowe, Annie Fields, Rose Terry Cooke, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orner Jewett, Mary E. Wilkes [Freeman].

New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition

History & Criticism

Ungar Pub. Co.

Traces the development of the American feminist movement, looks at important leaders and theorists, and describes the influence of Marxism, Freud, and existentialism.

Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminism

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Feminist theory: The intellectual traditions of American feminism

Social Sciences

Continuum

Uncle Tom's Cabin: Evil, Affliction, and Redemptive Love (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)

Exploring themes of oppression in Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, the author attempts to draw an analogy between the novel's subject and contemporary struggles, especially feminism. She explains why Lincoln said the novel caused the Civil War, and discusses Stowe's Christian theology, political views and personal life and their relationship with the novel's content. Further, she argues the importance of the book's literary realism, and why the hero of the novel came to be regarded as more than just an Uncle Tom.

Twayne Pub

This is a revised and updated edition of a 1990 study of Harriet Beecher Stowe's epic antislavery novel, in which the author focuses on Harriet Beecher Stowe's epic antislavery novel, in which the author focuses on the political, philosophical, and religious ideas in Stowe's work, finding its reflections on the problem of evil still timely in the twenty-first century. The book provides a useful overview of the novel's critical reception from early African-American reactions to the recent "canon wars."

A critical study of 19th century women writers of New England, (orig. pub. 1983) evaluates the originality of the group that included Harriet Beecher Stowe, Annie Fields, Rose Terry Cooke, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orner Jewett, Mary E. Wilkes [Freeman].

New England Local Color Literature: A Woman's Tradition

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After the Fall: The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow

After the Fall: The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow

Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726

Sarah Orne Jewett (Modern Literature Series)

New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition

Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminism

Feminist theory: The intellectual traditions of American feminism

Uncle Tom's Cabin: Evil, Affliction, and Redemptive Love (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)

Uncle Tom's Cabin: Evil, Affliction, and Redemptive Love (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)

New England Local Color Literature: A Woman's Tradition