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Reading Sideways
ISBN: 9780823282647
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Gender identity in literature; Sex role in literature.; Race in literature.; Arts in literature.; American fiction;

Reading Sideways explores the role various art forms played in American literary fiction in direct relation to the politics of gender and sexuality at the turn of the century. Each chapter takes a different art form as its object: sculpture, portraiture, homecraft, and opera, which appear in the major works of the period central to questions of gender, race, and sexuality, including those by Henry James, Davis, Willa Cather, Du Bois, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mary Wilkins Freeman.

Dana Seitler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Atavistic Tendencies: The Culture of Science in Modern America .Dana Seitler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Atavistic Tendencies: The Culture of Science in Modern America .