American Plays of the New Woman

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These six plays present varying accounts of the battle of the sexes in the early years of the 20th century. The subjects include the double standard, the advent of the New WomanO and turn-of-the-century feminism, and the clash between a woman's career and conventional marriage. Delightful...these plays...provide wonderful insights into the collective mentality of the period.O-Library Journal.

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Delightful...wonderful insights into the collective mentality of the liberation period. * Library Journal *

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Keith Newlin teaches American literature at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He has also edited The Collected Plays of Theodore Dreiser (with Frederic E. Rusch) and Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland (with Joseph B. McCullough), and has written Hardboiled Burlesque, a study of Raymond Chandlers fiction.