The Cambridge History of American Women's

The field of American women's writing is one characterized by innovation: scholars are discovering new authors and works, as well as new ways of historicizing this literature, rethinking contexts, categories and juxtapositions. Now, after three decades of scholarly investigation and innovation, the rich complexity and diversity of American literature written by women can be seen with a new coherence and subtlety. Dedicated to this expanding heterogeneity, The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature develops and challenges historical, cultural, theoretical, even polemical methods, all of which will advance the future study of American women writers â€“ from Native Americans to postmodern communities, from individual careers to communities of writers and readers. This volume immerses readers in a new dialogue about the range and depth of women's literature in the United States and allows them to trace the ever-evolving shape of the field.

Introduction
The stories we tell: American Indian women's writing and the persistence of tradition
Women writers and war
American women's writing in the Colonial period
Religion, sensibility, and sympathy
Women's writing of the Revolutionary era
Women writers and the early US novel
Women in literary culture during the long nineteenth century
Moral authority as literary property in mid-century print culture
The shape of Catharine Sedgwick's career
Writing, authorship and genius: literary women and modes of literary production
Nineteenth-century American women's poetry: past and prospects
Transatlantic sympathies and nineteenth-century women writing
Nineteenth-century African American women writers
Local knowledge and regional women's writing
Women and children first: female writers of American children's literature
US suffrage literature
American women playwrights
Turn-of-the-twentieth-century transitions: women on the edge of tomorrow
Women's writing and naturalism: accidents and agency
The geography of ladyhood: racializing the novel of manners
Self-made women: novelists of the 1920s
Recovering the legacy of Zara Wright and the twentieth-century black woman writer
Jewish American women writers
Women on the breadlines
Modern domestic realism in America, 1950-1970
Lyric, gender and subjectivity in modern and contemporary poetry
Contemporary American women's writing: women and violence
Asian-American women's literature and the promise of committed art
Straight sex, queer text: American women novelists
Latina writers and the usable past
Where is she? Women/access/rhetoric
Reading women in America
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The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature

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