Black Oxen - Softcover

Atherton, Gertrude

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500323179 ISBN 13: 9781500323172

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

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Review:

"Melanie Dawson's critical edition of Gertrude Atherton's Black Oxen provides a good range of contextual materials illuminating the novel's exploration of youth culture, science and technology, eugenics, and sexual politics in the early twentieth century. Dawson's helpful introduction also emphasizes the novel's engagement with national and international concerns of the period. Supplementary materials provide a useful overview of rejuvenation theories (including Atherton's own writing on the subject), contemporary discourses of marriage, gender, and the flapper, and the reception of Atherton's novel and its popular movie version. The edition will be particularly welcome in modernism and women's studies courses."--Gary Totten, North Dakota State University

About the Author:

Famous American author of best selling novels, Atherton wrote creatively on diverse issues relating to women, classical history and her birthplace, California. She penned 60 books and innumerable articles in her lifetime. Her first novel, The Randolphs of Redwoods, appeared in 1883. Her most renowned novels include The Californians (1898), The Conqueror (1902), The Ancestors (1907), and Black Oxen (1923); the last of these was made into a successful movie. Atherton also penned several short stories, collected in Before the Gringo Came. They were later republished under the title The Splendid Idle Forties. Her six hundred page autobiography, The Adventures of a Novelist, was published in 1932. Atherton also wrote articles, travel narratives, and scripts for films and plays.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500323179
• ISBN 13: 9781500323172
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162