Palgrave Macmillan
The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern
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9783031412752
ISBN13:
9783031412752
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$127.25
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.
| Author: James E. Caron |
| Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publication Date: Jan 03, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 3031412753 |
| ISBN-13: 9783031412752 |
The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern
$127.25
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.
| Author: James E. Caron |
| Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publication Date: Jan 03, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 3031412753 |
| ISBN-13: 9783031412752 |
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