On the cusp of a modern America, life at the turn of the nineteenth century has been characterized as distinctly male oriented. Yet in Women, Compulsion, Modernity, Jennifer L. Fleissner disputes this popular view and uncovers a new understanding of the era through naturalism - the prominent literary style of the time. Fleissner reveals that the modern woman stood at the center of the increasingly industrial, urbanized, and consumer-driven world around her far earlier than previously acknowledged. To illustrate this point, Fleissner considers iconic literary examples - novels by Frank Norris,...
On the cusp of a modern America, life at the turn of the nineteenth century has been characterized as distinctly male oriented. Yet in Women, Compulsi...
