American Women Short Story Writers: A

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.

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
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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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American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays

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