{"product_id":"beyond-the-gibson-girl-9780252075636","title":"Beyond the Gibson Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRace, ethnicity, and the American New Woman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBeyond the Gibson Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is an interesting, important, and highly readable study defining the New Woman, a figure of enduring importance to both cultural and literary history. Martha Patterson looks wisely beyond any fixed perspective to show how differently this figure is conceived depending on the perspectives from which she is viewed, and the effects on this image of issues of region, race, ethnicity, and social class.\"--Elsa Nettels, professor of English, emeritus, College of William and Mary\u003cbr\u003e\"Patterson's work is insightful, penetrating, and highly readable. . . . Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Patterson is to be lauded for problematizing the figure of the New Woman in literature and popular culture beyond what has been done in any previous studies, especially in the way she examines the competing and conflicting claims, constraints, and possibilities for women.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An engaging and thought-provoking analysis of the Gibson Girl. . . . As cultural history and as literary analysis, the book succeeds in deepening our understanding of a potent American icon.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBeyond the Gibson Girl\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the great benefits of an interdisciplinary study of American culture. . . . Patterson draws heavily on literary analysis as well as on a wide variety of social commentaries, on social scientific and evolutionary theories of the period, and on contemporary visual theory. This combination of sources places what may have been perceived to be a rather simplistic ideal into a complex cultural framework that includes many of the significant issues of the period.\"--\u003ci\u003eRegister of the Kentucky Historical Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In her richly archival study, Martha Patterson . . . productively complicates the American New Woman's literary and cultural history.\"--\u003ci\u003eModernism\/modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Martha Patterson's \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Gibson Girl\u003c\/i\u003e has given us perfectly conceived, cogent, and insightful arguments about the role of context and geography in the development of the New Womanhood. It is high time for a book like this to appear.\"--Dale M. Bauer, professor of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400481841495,"sku":"9780252075636","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252075636.jpg?v=1730470794","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-the-gibson-girl-9780252075636","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}