{"product_id":"9783031412752","title":"Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eCaron, James E.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern\u003c\/i\u003e argues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position within the antebellum literary marketplace dominated by women authors of sentimental fiction, writers Nathaniel Hawthorne (in)famously called “the damn mob of scribbling women.” The Fanny Fern persona represents a nineteenth-century woman voicing the modern feminine within a laughter-provoking bourgeois carnival, a forerunner of Hélène Cixous’s laughing Medusa figure and her theory about \u003ci\u003eécriture féminine\u003c\/i\u003e. By advancing an innovative theory about an Anglo-American aesthetic, comic belles lettres, Caron explains the comic nuances of Parton’s persona, capable of both an amiable and a caustic satire. The book traces Parton’s burgeoning celebrity, analyzes her satires on cultural expectations of gendered behavior, and provides a close look at her variegated comic style. The book then makes two first-order conclusions: Parton not only offers a unique profile for antebellum women comic writers, but her Fanny Fern persona also anchors a potential genealogy of women comic writers and activists, down to the present day, who could fit Kate Clinton’s concept of \u003ci\u003efumerism\u003c\/i\u003e, a feminist style of humor that fumes, that embraces the comic power of a Medusa satire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2024-01-03\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031412752\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-41276-9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 217\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45383491584140,"sku":"9783031412752","price":107.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031412752.jpg?v=1776618487","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031412752","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}