Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers A Critical Reader

by Kilcup, Karen L.

• ISBN13: 9780631200543
• ISBN10: 0631200541
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

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

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Conversation on Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

Not in the Least American: Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism as UnAmerican Literature

Living With Difference: Nineteenth-Century Southern Women Writers

Western Biodiversity: Rereading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

A Tolerance For Contradictions: The Short Stories of Maria Cristina Mena

Early Native American Women Authors

Nature, Nurture, and Nationalism: A Faded Leaf of History

Crippled Girls and Lame Old Women: Sentimental Spectacles of Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

Fracturing Gender: Women's Economic Independence

To Labor. . . And Fight on the Side of God: Spirit, Class, and Nineteenth-Century African-American Women's Literature

Essays of Invention: Transformations of Advice in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

Inventing a Feminist Discourse: Rhetoric and Resistance in Margaret Fuller's Women In The Nineteenth Century

Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets Revisited

Contributors

Index

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