American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays

by Brown,Julie; Brown,Julie

• ISBN13: 9780815313380
• ISBN10: 0815313381
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story. The introductory chapter discusses why genre critics have ignored works by women and why feminist scholars have ignored the short-story genre. Subsequent chapters discuss early stories by such authors as Lydia Maria Child and Rose Terry Cooke. Other chapters are devoted to the influences (race, class, sexual orientation, education) that have shaped women's short fiction through the years. Women's special stylistic, formal, and thematic concerns are also discussed in this study. The final essay addresses the ways our contemporary creative-writing classes are stifling the voices of emerging young female authors. The collection includes an extensive five-part bibliography.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction

Literary Excellence and Social Reform: Lydia Maria Child's Ultraisms for the 1840s

Fiction as Political Discourse: Rose Terry Cooke's Antisuffrage Short Stories

Linkon

An Examination of Her Work as Pivot Between Exploratory Fiction and the Modern Short Story

Who Was That Masked Woman? Gender and Form in Louisa May Alcott's Fiction

Ripe Fruit: Fantastic Elements in the Short Fiction of Ellen Glasgow, Edith Wharton, and Eudora Welty

Lady Terrorists: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Ghost Story

Representations of Female Authorship in Turn of the Century American Magazine Fiction

Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century

Isyls of the Grass and rhw Dilemma of Ethnic Self-Representation

Short Stories of Working Women--"Oats for the Woman," Sob Sister," and Contemporary Reader Responses: A meditation

Broders and Blurred Boundaries : Mary Austin as Storyteller

Ritual and Renewal: Keres Tradition sin the Short Fiction of Leslie Silko

"A Revolutionary Tale": In Search of African American Women's Short Story Writing

Society and Self in Alice Walker's in Love and Trouble

Displaced Abjection and States of Grace

The Last of the

Dorthy Parker's Perpetual Motion

The "Feminine" Short Story in America: Historicizing Epiphanies

Joyce Carol Oates: Reimagining the Masters, Or, A Woman's Place Is in Her Own Fiction

Gender and Genre: The Case of the Novel-in-Stories

The Great Ventriloquist Act: Gender and Voice in the Fiction Workshop

Bibliography of primary Sources

Bibliography of Secondary Sources

Amy Schoenberger

Contributors Index

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