The Morgesons and Other Writings

by Stoddard, Elizabeth; Buell, Lawrence; Zagarell, Sandra

• ISBN13: 9780812211702
• ISBN10: 0812211707
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1984-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

"Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."--from the Introduction The centerpiece of this volume isThe Morgesons(1862), one of the few outstanding feminist bildungsromanae of that century. Additional selections include arresting short stories and provocative journalistic essays/reviews, plus a number of letters and manuscript journals that have never before been published. The texts are fully edited and documented.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
Biographical and Critical Introduction	p. xi
A Guide to Writings by and About Elizabeth Stoddard	p. xxvii
Chronology	p. xxxi
The Morgesons	p. 1
Short Fiction	p. 263
Collected by a Valetudinarian	p. 285
Early Journalism	p. 309
Manuscripts	p. 333
Emendations	p. 361
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