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American Plays of the New Woman
Keith . Ed(S): Newlin
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Description for American Plays of the New Woman
Paperback. Editor(s): Newlin, Keith. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DD; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
The battle of the sexes reached a near fever pitch in the early years of the twentieth century, in the debate over the "proper" role of women in a rapidly changing and increasingly industrialized society. The six plays that Keith Newlin has selected for this book nicely illustrate the conflicts of that time over such issues as the double standard, the advent of the "New Woman" and turn-of-the-century feminism, and the clash between a woman's career and conventional marriage. The plays are: William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide (1906), Rachel Crothers's A Man's World (1910), Augustus Thomas's As a Man ... Read more
The battle of the sexes reached a near fever pitch in the early years of the twentieth century, in the debate over the "proper" role of women in a rapidly changing and increasingly industrialized society. The six plays that Keith Newlin has selected for this book nicely illustrate the conflicts of that time over such issues as the double standard, the advent of the "New Woman" and turn-of-the-century feminism, and the clash between a woman's career and conventional marriage. The plays are: William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide (1906), Rachel Crothers's A Man's World (1910), Augustus Thomas's As a Man ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566632997
SKU
V9781566632997
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Ref
99-15
About Keith . Ed(S): Newlin
Keith Newlin teaches American literature at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He has also edited The Collected Plays of Theodore Dreiser (with Frederic E. Rusch) and Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland (with Joseph B. McCullough), and has written Hardboiled Burlesque, a study of Raymond Chandler’s fiction.
Reviews for American Plays of the New Woman
Delightful...wonderful insights into the collective mentality of the liberation period.
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