The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing,9780521669757

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

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ISBN13: 9780521669757
ISBN10: 0521669758
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-12-17
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Providing an overview of the history of writing by women in the period, this Companion establishes the context in which this writing emerged, and traces the origin of the terms which have traditionally defined the debate. It includes essays on topics of recent concern, such as women and war, erotic violence, the liberating and disciplinary effects of religion, and examines the work of a variety of women writers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis and Louisa May Alcott. The volume plots new directions for the study of American literary history, and provides several valuable tools for students, including a chronology of works and suggestions for further reading.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
xi
Notes on contributors xiii
Acknowledgments xvi
Chronology of works and events 1773-1925 xvii
Introduction 1(18)
Dale M. Bauer
Philip Gould
Part I: Historical and theoretical background
The postcolonial culture of early American women's writing
19(19)
Rosemarie Zagarri
Women in public
38(31)
Dana D. Nelson
Antebellum politics and women's writing
69(36)
Stephanie A. Smith
Part 2: Genre, tradition, and innovation
Captivity and the literary imagination
105(17)
Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola
Nineteenth-century American women's poetry
122(21)
Elizabeth Petrino
Women at war
143(14)
Shirley Samuels
Women, anti-Catholicism, and narrative in nineteenth-century America
157(19)
Susan Griffin
Immigration and assimilation in nineteenth-century US women's writing
176(27)
Priscilla Wald
Part 3: Case studies
The uses of writing in Margaret Bayard Smith's new nation
203(18)
Fredrika J. Teute
The sentimental novel: the example of Harriet Beecher Stowe
221(23)
Gail K. Smith
African-American women's spiritual narratives
244(18)
Yolanda Pierce
The postbellum reform writings of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
262(22)
Lisa A. Long
``Strenuous Artistry'': Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons
284(24)
Sandra A. Zagarell
Minnie's Sacrifice: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's narrative of citizenship
308(12)
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Conclusion 320(8)
Mary Kelley
Index 328

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