California dreams and American contradictions : women writers and the Western ideal / by McDade, Monique

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a frontier ethic and the American paradox -- "Autoethnographic" heroines: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's sentimental novels, Who would have thought it? and The squatter and the don -- The liberal fantasy: Helen Hunt Jackson's sentimental advocacy in Ramona -- Sui Sin Far's genre of intervention: the regional sketch and the "real" in realism -- An autobiography of Western American integration: Eva Rutland and her alternative politics of respectability -- Conclusion: Joan Didion's Sacramento and Arlie Russell Hochschild's "Deep story".…”
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