American Realist Fictions of Marriage: From Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton to Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins...

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Yoshinobu Hakutani Kelli V. Randall

American Realist Fictions of Marriage

From Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton to Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins

Yoshinobu Hakutani, Kelli V. Randall

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
03 November 2017

Series: Modern American Literature

American Realist Fictions of Marriage: From Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton to Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins 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. Megda (1891), An Imperative Duty (1891), Iola Leroy (1892), The Awakening (1899), Contending Forces (1900), and The House of Mirth (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, American Realist Fictions of Marriage aims 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.

By: Kelli V. Randall
Series edited by: Yoshinobu Hakutani
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Volume: 68
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781433128684
ISBN 10: 1433128683
Series: Modern American Literature
Pages: 132
Publication Date: 03 November 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Preface – Acknowledgments – Introduction: Realism and the Value of Marriage on an American Scene – Conversion, Marriage, and Realism in Emma Kelley’s Megda and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening – Marriage on the ""Color Line"" in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy and William Dean Howells’s An Imperative Duty – Realism, Romance, and Questions of Marital Eligibility in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth – Conclusion: Realist Delineations of Married Life – Index."

A native of Chicago, Illinois, Kelli V. Randall earned a Ph.D. in English from Emory University in 2007. She served as Assistant Professor of English at Salisbury University from 2007 to 2010. From 2010 to 2011, Dr. Randall served as Acting Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of English and Modern Languages at University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Currently, Dr. Randall serves as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of Liberal Arts and Humanities, and SACSCOC Liaison at Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina. She is a tenured Professor of English within the Department of English and Foreign Language at Livingstone College. Dr. Randall’s scholarly research interests include “race” and realism, voodoo in writings by women of color, and the role of HBCUs in the twenty-first century. Dr. Randall has previously taught English at Dekalb Technical College, Georgia Perimeter College, Spelman College, Wor-Wic Community College, and Rowan-Cabarrus Community College.