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California dreams and American contradictions : women writers and the Western ideal / Monique McDade.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDade, Monique, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--West (U.S.)--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- West (U.S.)--In literature.
- West (U.S.).
- Progress in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
- Contents:
- Introduction: California dreaming: a frontier ethic and the American paradox
- Sentimental liberalism. The "autoethnographic" heroines in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's sentimental novels, Who would have thought it? and The squatter and the don
- The liberal fantasy: Helen Hunt Jackson's sentimental advocacy in Ramona
- Challenging progress. Sui Sin Far's genre of intervention: the regional sketch and the "real" in realism
- An autobiography of Western-American integration: Eva Rutland and her alternative politics of respectability
- International frontiers. Conclusion: A dream dreamed for too long: Joan Didion's Sacramento and Arlie Russell Hochschild's "Deep story".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496235299 (electronic bk.)
- 1496235290 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40031553228
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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