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viii, 291 p. ; 24 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-280) and index. |
| Contents |
Part One. Reenvisioning traditional regionalism. Origins of American literary regionalism : gender in Irving, Stowe, Longstreet / Marjorie Pryse -- Theorizing regionalism : Celia Thaxter's Among the Isles of Shoals / Judith Fetterley -- Why, why do we not write our side? gender and Southern self-presentation in Grace King's Balcony stories / Lori Robinson -- Emplotting national history : regionalism and Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces / Francesca Sawaya -- Making the strange(r) familiar : Sarah Orne Jewett's "The foreigner" / Cynthia J. Davis -- Regionalist bodies/embodied regions : Sarah Orne Jewett and Zitkala-Sa / D. K. Meisenheimer, Jr. -- "There was a part for her in the Indian life" : Mary Austin, regionalism, and the problems of appropriation / Noreen Groover Lape -- Part two. Expanding the genre. Writing the Midwest : Meridel Le Sueur and the making of a radical regional tradition / Julia Mickenberg -- "Wherever I am living" : the "Lady of the Limberlost" resituates / Barbara Ryan -- In pursuit of regional and cultural identity : the autobiographies of Agnes Morely Cleaveland and Fabiola Cabeza de Baca / Becky Jo Gesteland McShane -- "A mutual journey" : Wilma Dykeman and Appalachian regionalism / Patricia M. Gantt -- Sidestepping environmental justice : "natural" landscapes and the wilderness plot / Krista Comer -- Not just any land : Linda Hasselstrom at home on the American grasslands / John T. Price. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature.
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Regionalism.
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Regionalism in literature.
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United States -- In literature.
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| Added Author |
Inness, Sherrie A.
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Royer, Diana, 1959-
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| ISBN |
0877456038 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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087745602X (acid-free paper) |
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