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Baym, Nina Bergman, Jill Annette 2015-09-25T20:15:47Z 2015-09-25T20:15:47Z 10000-01-01 1999 1999 "This project explores the place of women writers generally excluded from studies of literary realism. Writing in response to the same cultural and economic changes taking place in America as more conventional realists, Phelps, Gilman, and Hopkins retain elements of popular domestic fiction to create a new form: maternal realism. Their fictions conceive of an America in need of motherly guidance, offering a maternal value system and the practice of public mothering as a viable alternative to the nation's increasingly individualistic and capitalistic ethos. Challenging the Howellsian notion that realism must portray ""the world of men's activities,"" these writers deploy the feminine, maternal ethic of domestic fiction as a means of rewriting the codes of realism and valorizing women's experiences." Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:15:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9952965.pdf: 14213636 bytes, checksum: 8a8199d5daf463e31b00099520eb31b1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1999 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 82784 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 285 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/81503 (MiAaPQ)AAI9952965 eng Women's Studies Maternal Realism: Public Mothering in the Work of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins text English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.