| Description |
ix, 313 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Susanna Rowson, father of the American novel / Jane Tompkins --Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie : radical frontier romance / Carol J. Singley -- Reinventing Lydia Sigourney / Nina Baym -- Domesticity and the economics of independence : resistance and revolution in the work of Fanny Fern / Joyce W. Warren -- Harriet Jacobs's Incidents and the "careless daughters" (and sons) who read it / Frances Smith Foster -- Only a story, not a romance : Harriet Beecher Stowe's The pearl of Orr's Island / Judith Fetterley -- Eaconomies of space : markets and marketability in Our nig and Iola Leroy / Karla F. C. Holloway -- "America" as community in three antebellum village sketches / Sandra A. Zagarell -- The American renaissance reenvisioned / Joanne Dobson -- "Doers of the word" : theorizing African-American women writers in the antebellum North / Carla L. Peterson. |
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(cont.) "What methods have brought blessing" : discourses of reform in philanthropic literature / Deborah Carlin -- Breaking the sentence : local-color literature and subjugated knowledges / Josephine Donovan -- The tradition of American Jewish women writers / Diane Lichtenstein -- "But is it any good?" : evaluating nineteenth-century American women's fiction / Susan K. Harris -- Teaching nineteenth-century women writers / Paul Lauter. |
| Subject |
Women and literature -- History -- 19th century.
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Women authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
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| Added Author |
Warren, Joyce W.
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| ISBN |
081351911X (pbk.) : $15.00 |
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0813519101 (cloth) : $45.00 |
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