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

Hapke, Laura

 
9780879724740: Girls Who Went Wrong: Prostitutes in American Fiction, 1885-1917
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0879724749 ISBN 13: 9780879724740
Verlag: UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

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”?
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1989
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0879724749
ISBN 13 
9780879724740
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
226
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