Title The color of democracy in women's regional writing / Jean Carol Griffith

Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 217 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in American literary realism and naturalism Studies in American literary realism and naturalism. Contents Introduction: Writing region in the new century -- "Is New York such a labyrinth?" : street life and amalgamation in Wharton's and Glasgow's city -- Men of the mob and "fascinatingly American" women -- "Et que cétait comme dans le livre" : Wharton, the Harlem Renaissance, and all that jazz -- "Virginia is not dead but sleepeth": segregation and the "family Black and white" in Glasgow's and Cather's South -- Family reunion : slavery as usable past -- A house divided : the interracial family and the white supremacist community -- "Fortunate country" : old immigrants and new women in Cather's and Wharton's West -- How the West was whitened -- New women and the world of business -- Conclusion: "Always, everywhere, inferior." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Women authors, American -- Political and social views Regionalism in literature. Local history in literature. Democracy in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature American literature -- Women authors Democracy in literature Literature Local history in literature Regionalism in literature Regionalliteratur Frauenliteratur SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- In literature Southern States -- In literature West (U.S.) -- In literature Subject New York (State) -- New York Southern States West United States USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2008051153 ISBN 9780817382391 0817382399

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