Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers A Critical Reader

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ISBN: 9780631200536 | 0631200533
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Copyright: 6/29/1998

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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.

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).

List of Contributors

vii

(3)

Preface

(4)

Acknowledgments

xiv

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

(14)

Karen L. Kilcup

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

(18)

Judith Fetterley

2 Living With Difference: Nineteenth-Century Southern Women Writers

(14)

Nancy A. Walker

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

(15)

Melody Graulich

4 "A Tolerance for Contradictions": The Short Stories of Maria Cristina Mena

(19)

Tiffany Ana Lopez

5 Early Native American Women Authors: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, E. Pauline Johnson, and Zitkala-Sa

(31)

A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff

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

112

(16)

Jean Pfaelzer

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

128

(18)

Rosemarie Garland Thomson

8 Fracturing Gender: Woman's Economic Independence

146

(18)

Joyce W. Warren

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

164

(20)

Barbara McCaskill

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

184

(22)

Karen L. Kilcup

11 Inventing a Feminist Discourse: Rhetoric and Resistance in Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century

206

(25)

Annette Kolodny

12 Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets Revisited

231

(14)

Cheryl Walker

Index

245

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