The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern - Caron, James E.
Caron, James E. |
2023 |
Harde kaft |
Engels
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Beschrijving
The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern argues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position within the antebellum literary marketplace dominated by women authors of sentimental fiction, writers Nathaniel Hawthorne (in)famously called ¿the damn mob of scribbling women.¿ The Fanny Fern persona represents a nineteenth-century woman voicing the modern feminine within a laughter-provoking bourgeois carnival, a forerunner of Hélène Cixous¿s laughing Medusa figure and her theory about écriture féminine. By advancing an innovative theory about an Anglo-American aesthetic, comic belles lettres, Caron explains the comic nuances of Parton¿s persona, capable of both an amiable and a caustic satire. The book traces Parton¿s burgeoning celebrity, analyzes her satires on cultural expectations of gendered behavior, and provides a close look at her variegated comic style. The book then makes two first-order conclusions: Parton not only offers a unique profile for antebellum women comic writers, but her Fanny Fern persona also anchors a potential genealogy of women comic writers and activists, down to the present day, who could fit Kate Clinton¿s concept of fumerism, a feminist style of humor that fumes, that embraces the comic power of a Medusa satire.
Beschrijving
The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern argues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position within the antebellum literary marketplace dominated by women authors of sentimental fiction, writers Nathaniel Hawthorne (in)famously called ¿the damn mob of scribbling women.¿ The Fanny Fern persona represents a nineteenth-century woman voicing the modern feminine within a laughter-provoking bourgeois carnival, a forerunner of Hélène Cixous¿s laughing Medusa figure and her theory about écriture féminine. By advancing an innovative theory about an Anglo-American aesthetic, comic belles lettres, Caron explains the comic nuances of Parton¿s persona, capable of both an amiable and a caustic satire. The book traces Parton¿s burgeoning celebrity, analyzes her satires on cultural expectations of gendered behavior, and provides a close look at her variegated comic style. The book then makes two first-order conclusions: Parton not only offers a unique profile for antebellum women comic writers, but her Fanny Fern persona also anchors a potential genealogy of women comic writers and activists, down to the present day, who could fit Kate Clinton¿s concept of fumerism, a feminist style of humor that fumes, that embraces the comic power of a Medusa satire.
Specificaties
Door (auteur) | Caron, James E. |
Uitgeverij | Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. |
Genre | Literaire non-fictie algemeen |
Uitgave | Harde kaft |
Aantal pagina's | 217 |
Verschenen op | 14-12-2023 |
ISBN / EAN | 9783031412752 |
Taal | Engels |