Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine

A study of the the role of the 'feminine' in Dos Passos's fiction.

Janet Galligani Casey (Author)

9780521111935, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 June 2009

252 pages, 15 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.37 kg

"Casey's book provides a strikingly new...explanation for the peculiar fate of Dos Passos' literary reputation. Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine is an enormous contribution to Dos Passos scholarship....scholarship will be indebted to [Casey] for this groundbreaking study." Seth Moglen, John Dos Passos Newsletter

Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine is an original contribution to traditional Dos Passos scholarship, which tends to focus on the author's political agenda. In this book, Janet Casey takes a cultural studies approach that situates both the author and his finest fiction in relation to representations and theorisations of gender in the 1920s and 1930s. Its primary focus is the manner in which Dos Passos responds to prevalent ideas about the feminine, as well as the way that such ideas have affected his ongoing reputation.

Introduction
1. Critical Legacies: Political, Literary, Personal
2. Framing the Issues: The Feminine in the Early Fiction
3. Manhattan transfer and 'The Center of Things'
4. Ideology, the feminine, and USA.

Subject Areas: Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ], Cultural studies [JFC], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]