Nineteenth-century American women writers : a critical reader /

Nineteenth-century American women writers : a critical reader /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kilcup, Karen L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
Subjects:
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • "Not in the least American": nineteenth-century literary regionalism as unamerican literature / Karen L. Kilcup
  • Living with difference: nineteenth-century Southern women writers / Nancy A. Walker
  • Western biodiversity: rereading nineteenth-century American women's writing / Melody Graulich
  • "Tolerance for contradictions": the short stories of Maria Cristina Mena / Tiffancy Ana López
  • Early native American women authors: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, E. Pauline Johnson, and Zitkala-Ša / A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff
  • Nature, nurture, and nationalism: "A faded leaf of history" / Jean Pfaelzer
  • Crippled girls and lame old women: sentimental spectacles of sympathy in nineteenth-century American women's writing / Rosemarie Garland Thomson
  • Fracturing gender: woman's economic independence / Joyce W. Warren
  • "To labor and fight on the side of God": spirit, class, and ninetennth-century African American women's literature / Barbara McCaskill
  • "Essays of invention": transformations of advice in nineteenth-century American women's writing / Karen L. Kilcup
  • Inventing a feminist discourse: rhetoric and resistance in Margaret Fuller's Woman in the nineteenth century / Annette Kolodny
  • Nineteenth-century American women poets revisited / Cheryl Walker.