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...
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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 challenge of such new feminist theorists as Jean Bethke Elshtain, Roberts takes a theoretical approach that encompasses the social vision and feminist practice of the writers and places them in their histor
THREE RADICAL WOMEN WRITERS CLASS AND GENDER IN MERIDEL LE SUEUR, TILLIE OLSEN, AND JOSEPHINEHERBST; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Three Radical Women; Chapter One: Marxism and the Feminine Utopia; Chapter Two: Delineating a Marxist Critique; Chapter Three: The Political Writings of Meridel Le Sueur; Chapter Four: Meridel Le Sueur's Feminist Sentence; Chapter Five: Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio: From the Thirties; Chapter Six: Tillie Olsen's Riddle; Chapter Seven: Josephine Herbst: The Major Novels; Chapter Eight: Josephine Herbst: Memory Speaks
Chapter Nine: The Return to Nature: A Cross-ReadingWorks Cited; Index
