Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism

摘要: The 1890s have long been thought one of the most male-oriented eras in American history. But reading such writers as Frank Norris with Mary Wilkins Freeman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman Stephen Crane, Jennifer L. Fleissner boldly argues that feminist claims fact shaped period's cultural mainstream. ?Women, Compulsion, Modernity? reopens a moment when young woman embodied both promise threat modernizing world. shows this era's expanding opportunities for women were inseparable from same modern developments--industrialization, consumerism--typically believed to constrain human freedom. With Modernity?, creates new language strange way writings time broaden question individual agency.