Girls Who Went Wrong: Prostitutes in American Fiction, 1885-1917 - Couverture rigide

University Of Wisconsin Press

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0879724730 ISBN 13 : 9780879724733

Editeur : The Popular Press, 1989

Synopsis

The period 1885 to 1917 saw thousands of American crusaders working hard to "save the fallen women," but little on the part of American social protest writers. In this first work on the subject, Laura Hapke examines how writers attempted to turn an outcast into a heroine in a literature otherwise known for its puritanical attitude toward the fallen woman. She focuses on how these authors (all male) expressed late-Victorian conflicts about female sexuality. If, as they all maintained, women have an innate preference for chastity, how could they account for the prostitute? Was she a sinner, suggesting the potential waywardness of all women? Or, if she was a victim, what of her "depravity"?
Hapke reevaluates Crane's famous Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, discusses neglected prostitution fiction by authors Joaquin Miller, Edgar Fawcett, and Harold Frederic, and surveys Progressive white slave novels. She draws on a number of period sources, among them urban guidebooks and medical treatises, to place the fiction in its cultural context.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Laura Hapke has taught working-class studies and labor literature at Pace University, Queens College, and Hunter College. Recipient of two Choice Outstanding Academic Book awards, her most recent book is Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Popular Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0879724730
• ISBN 13: 9780879724733
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible