Nineteenth-century American women writers : a critical reader

Author(s)

• Kilcup, Karen L.

Bibliographic Information

Nineteenth-century American women writers : a critical reader

edited by Karen L. Kilcup

Blackwell Publishers, 1998

• : pbk

Other Title

19th century American women writers

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This critical reader, specifically designed to accompany the anthology, contains twelve original essays - ten newly-written - on a wide range of topics, together with an introductory overview by the editor.

Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: A Conversation on Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Karen Kilcup. "Not in the Least American": Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism as UnAmerican Literature: Judith Fetterley (University at Albany, SUNY). Living With Difference: Nineteenth-Century Southern Women Writers: Nancy A. Walker (Vanderbilt University). Western Biodiversity: Rereading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Melody Graulich (University of New Hampshire). "A Tolerance For Contradictions":The Short Stories of Maria Cristina Mena: Tiffany Ana Lcpez (University of California, Riverside). Early Native American Women Authors: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, E. Pauline Johnson, and Zitkala-a: A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff (University of Illinois, Chicago). Nature, Nurture, and Nationalism: "A Faded Leaf of History": Jean Pfaelzer (University of Delaware). Crippled Girls and Lame Old Women: Sentimental Spectacles of Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Rosemarie Garland Thomson (Howard University). Fracturing Gender: Women's Economic Independence: Joyce Warren (Queens College, CUNY). "To Labor. . . And Fight on the Side of God":Spirit, Class, and Nineteenth-Century African-American Women's Literature: Barbara McCaskill (University of Georgia). "Essays of Invention":Transformations of Advice in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Karen L. Kilcup (University of North Carolina, Greensboro). Inventing a Feminist Discourse: Rhetoric and Resistance in Margaret Fuller's Women In The Nineteenth Century: Annette Kolodny (University of Arizonia). Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets Revisited: Cheryl Walker (Scripps College). Contributors. Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA37082731
• ISBN:
  • 0631200533
  • 0631200541
• LCCN: 97045807
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Malden, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 251 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS217.W64
  • DC21 : 810.9/9287/09034
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism