Description
Gender in American Literature and Culture introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism. It offers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present and moves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, individualism, and community. The book also demonstrates how rigid inscriptions of gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States. Responding to a sense of 21st century cultural and political crisis, it illuminates the literary histories and cultural imaginaries that have set the stage for urgent contemporary debates.
This book illustrates how rigid ideas about gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States.
About the Author
Jean M. Lutes is the editor of Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly (2014) and the author of Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1930 (2006). She is professor of English at Villanova University. Jennifer Travis is the author of Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2018); Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture (2005), and the co-editor of Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods in Nineteenth Century American Literature (2018); and Boys Don't Cry: Rethinking Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S. (2002). She is professor and chair of the English department at St. John's University.
Reviews
'Required reading for anyone seeking to understand the wide diversity of approaches to gender in American literature, this book is a welcome update for scholars of American studies and gender studies ... Highly recommended.' D. E. Magill, Choice Magazine
'The book provides a fresh take on subjects of broad interest. It is appropriate for upper-level undergraduate courses, graduate students seeking a foundation in the issues that animate scholarship on gender in US literature, and scholars seeking new approaches to familiar subjects.' Aimee Armande Wilson, Legacy
Book Information
ISBN 9781108477536
Author Jean M. Lutes
Format Hardback
Page Count 390
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 660g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm * 25mm
This book illustrates how rigid ideas about gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States.
About the Author
Jean M. Lutes is the editor of Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly (2014) and the author of Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1930 (2006). She is professor of English at Villanova University. Jennifer Travis is the author of Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2018); Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture (2005), and the co-editor of Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods in Nineteenth Century American Literature (2018); and Boys Don't Cry: Rethinking Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S. (2002). She is professor and chair of the English department at St. John's University.
Reviews
'Required reading for anyone seeking to understand the wide diversity of approaches to gender in American literature, this book is a welcome update for scholars of American studies and gender studies ... Highly recommended.' D. E. Magill, Choice Magazine
'The book provides a fresh take on subjects of broad interest. It is appropriate for upper-level undergraduate courses, graduate students seeking a foundation in the issues that animate scholarship on gender in US literature, and scholars seeking new approaches to familiar subjects.' Aimee Armande Wilson, Legacy
Book Information
ISBN 9781108477536
Author Jean M. Lutes
Format Hardback
Page Count 390
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 660g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm * 25mm
