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That Rotten Richness': Old Maids and Reproductive Anxiety In U.S. Southern Fiction, 1923-1946
… signifies an idealized and mythic South, the old maid evokes a range of threats to it, including illicit (re)production and barrenness. She becomes the symbol of modern southern ambivalence, embodying a cluster of overlapping tensions regarding regional tradition and futurity. I use the term …
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It Girls and Old Maids: Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918-1958)
“It Girls and Old Maids: Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918-1958)” argues for a feminist reconsideration of strategic humor in popular women’s novels. Spanning the decades between the first successful suffrage laws in Britain and the United States and second-wave …