Name: The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern
SKU: 64795147
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Author: James E. Caron
ISBN: 9783031412783

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The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Palgrave Macmillan

Autor

James E. Caron

Colección

Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

Año

2025

N° páginas

217

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21x14.8 cm

ISBN13

9783031412783

The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern

James E. Caron (Autor) · Palgrave Macmillan · Tapa Blanda

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The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern 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 écriture féminine. 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 fumerism, a feminist style of humor that fumes, that embraces the comic power of a Medusa satire.