Gender in American Literature and Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108477536)

Gender in American Literature and Culture introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism. It offers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present and moves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, individualism, and community. The book also demonstrates how rigid inscriptions of gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States. Responding to a sense of 21st century cultural and political crisis, it illuminates the literary histories and cultural imaginaries that have set the stage for urgent contemporary debates.

Author: Jean M. Lutes
ISBN-10: 1108477534
ISBN-13: 9781108477536
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2021
Pages: 390
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.70w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2022