{"product_id":"american-realist-fictions-of-marriage-from-kate-chopin-edith-wharton-to-frances-harper-pauline-hopkins","title":"American Realist Fictions of Marriage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Realist Fictions of Marriage: From Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton to Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins\u003c\/em\u003e intervenes in the field of American literary realism by arguing that selected marriage fiction of Kate Chopin, Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins, Williams Dean Howells, Emma Dunham-Kelly, and Edith Wharton interrogates the possibility of harmonious societies based on racial, gender, and social equality. \u003ci\u003eMegda \u003c\/i\u003e(1891), \u003ci\u003eAn Imperative Duty\u003c\/i\u003e (1891), \u003ci\u003eIola Leroy\u003c\/i\u003e (1892), \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e (1899), \u003ci\u003eContending Forces\u003c\/i\u003e (1900), and \u003ci\u003eThe House of Mirth\u003c\/i\u003e (1905) express suspicion about marriage and its potential consequences. These six novels use marriage as a forum to explore the problem of the “color line,” sexism, and class difference that promoted social boundaries. These novels demonstrate how choices about marriage made by female protagonists are metaphorical representations of social equality while simultaneously revealing threats to that ideal vision. In a wider context, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Realist Fictions of Marriage \u003c\/em\u003eaims to widen the conventional narrow focus on canonical realist writers by highlighting intellectual exchanges that were taking place between traditional and non-traditional writers about marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54176237289816,"sku":null,"price":93.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781433128684.jpg?v=1782230420","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/american-realist-fictions-of-marriage-from-kate-chopin-edith-wharton-to-frances-harper-pauline-hopkins","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}