Modern Domestic Fiction

Popular Feminism, Mass-Market Magazines, and Middle-Class Culture, 1905-1925

by Birte Christ

Book cover: Modern Domestic Fiction

Extent: 388 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: American Studies

Series: American Studies - A Monograph Series

Series volume number: 229

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2012)

ISBN: 9783825360542

5.28 x 8.27 inches

Price: $55.00

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The nineteenth-century genre of domestic fiction continues to perform important cultural work for women readers in the early twentieth century – this is the argument of ‘Modern Domestic Fiction’. Discussing texts by Dorothy Canfield, Zona Gale, and Inez Haynes Irwin, this study demonstrates how between 1905 and 1925 domestic fiction took a central role in promulgating popular feminist ideas, creating a mass magazine market geared to women, and shaping new middle-class identity.

  • By (author) Birte Christ