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Three Radical Women Writers Class and Gender in Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst
By Nora Ruth Roberts
Copyright 1996
222 Pages
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Routledge
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Combining biography, history, and literary theory, this work looks at three of the most significant women writers to emerge from American radicalism of the 1930s. Le Sueur, Olsen, and Herbst were influenced by the Communist movement of the time, but each also forged an independent vision of feminist socialist literary milieu. Drawing on Marxist and post-Marxist theory, and addressing the... Read more
Introduction: Three Radical Women; Chapter 1 Marxism and the Feminine Utopia; Chapter 2 Delineating a Marxist Critique; Chapter 3 The Political Writings of Meridel Le Sueur; Chapter 4 Meridel Le Sueur's Feminist Sentence; Chapter 5 Tillie Olsen's; Chapter 6 Tillie Olsen's Riddle; Chapter 7 Josephine Herbst: The Major Novels; Chapter 8 Josephine Herbst: Memory Speaks; Chapter 9 The Return to Nature: A Cross-Reading;
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Nora Ruth Roberts
