Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers An Anthology

by Kilcup, Karen L.

• ISBN13: 9780631199861
• ISBN10: 0631199861
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-18
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology is a multicultural, multigenre collection celebrating the quality and diversity of nineteenth century American women's expression.

Author Biography

Karen L. Kilcup is Professor of American literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The recipient of a US national Distinguished Teacher award in 1987, Professor Kilcup has been named the Davidson Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities at Florida International University for Fall 2000. She is the author or editor of six books on American literature and culture, including Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition (1999), Robert Frost and Feminine Literary Tradition (1998), and Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology (1997).

Table of Contents

Selected Contents by Genre

Selected Contents by Theme

Alphabetical List of Author

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Native American Myths

Sampler Verses

Mary Jemison (Degiwene's) (Seneca) (1743-1833)

""Old Elizabeth"" (1766-18??).Eliza Leslie (1787-1858)

Catheraine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)

Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)

Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871)

Sojourner Thruth (c. 1797-1883)/Frances Dana Gage (1808-1884)

Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864)

Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)

Betsey Chamberlain (

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