Single Lives : : Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and Film /

Single Lives : : Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and Film / / ed. by Katherine Fama, Jorie Lagerwey.

Single Lives is a collection of singleness studies essays from the interdisciplinary humanities that explores the last two hundred years of literature and popular media by, about, and for single women in the US and the UK. Independent women have always been a center around which social anxieties and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
MitwirkendeR:
Celello, Kristin,
Clark, Jennifer S.,
DeWolfe, Elizabeth,
Fama, Katherine,
Kahan, Benjamin,
Kania, Ursula,
Lagerwey, Jorie,
Liggins, Emma,
Mastandrea, Martina,
Mattis, Ann,
Williams, Andreá N.,
Wojcik, Pamela Robertson,
HerausgeberIn:
Fama, Katherine,
Lagerwey, Jorie,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.) :; 2 b&w images, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: situating single lives
  • PART I Singles Studies: archives and methods
  • Chapter 1 Searching for Singles: archival approaches for singleness studies and black women’s collections
  • Chapter 2 Reclaiming Single Women’s Work: gender, melodrama, and the processes of adaptation in the best of everything
  • Chapter 3 Recovering Single Biography: Jane Armstrong tucker, illness, and the single life
  • PART II Familiar Figures: representing and reforming the single woman
  • Chapter 4 Becoming Single: gidget “betwixt and between”
  • Chapter 5 F. Scott Fitzgerald and “The Sinking Ship of Future Matrimony” the unmarried flapper in literature and on screen
  • Chapter 6 Neither Betwixt nor Between: divorced mothers in the united states, 1920–1965
  • Chapter 7 Serves One: exploring representations of female singleness in American cookbooks
  • PART III Singles at Home domestic labors
  • Chapter 8 Feeling “Like a Queen” later-life single women at home in modern American short fiction
  • Chapter 9 “Spinsters’ Rest”? the discomforts of home in british women’s short stories of the 1920s to the 1940s
  • Chapter 10 All the Single Nannies: reforming elite domesticity and the cultural imaginary
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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