Soft Canons: American Women Writers and the Masculine Tradition

, by Kilcup, Karen L.

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ISBN: 9780877456896 | 0877456895
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/1/1999

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Acknowledgments

The Conversation of ``The Whole Family'': Gender, Politics, and Aesthetics in Literary Tradition

(26)

Karen L. Kilcup

GENDERED GENEALOGIES

Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick: A Dialogue on Race, Culture, and Gender

(21)

Susanne Opfermann

Reconstructing Literary Genealogies: Frances E. W. Harper's and William Dean Howells's Race Novels

(19)

M. Giulia Fabi

Was Tom White? Stowe's Dred and Twain's Pudd'nbead Wilson

(15)

Judie Newman

Shaped by Readers: The Slave Narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs

(17)

Stephen Matterson

GENRE MATTERS

Body Politics and the Body Politic in William Wells Brown's Clotel and Harriet Wilson's Our Nig

(24)

R. J. Ellis

Wild Semantics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Feminization of Edgar Allan Poe's Arabesque Aesthetics

123

(18)

Gabriele Rippl

Deepening Hues to Local Color: George Washington Cable and Sarah Barnwell Elliott

141

(26)

Aranzazu Usandizaga

DEVELOPING DIALOGUES

Sister Carrie and The Awakening: The Clothed, the Unclothed, and the Woman Undone

167

(17)

Janet Beer

Ladies Prefer Bonds: Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and the Money Novel

184

(18)

Claire Preston

Mining the West:Bret Harte and Mary Hallock Foote

202

(17)

Janet Floyd

My Banker and I Can Afford to Laugh! Class and Gender in Fanny Fern and Nathaniel Hawthorne

219

(20)

Alison M. J. Easton

TRANSFORMING TRADITIONS

Body/Rituals: The (Homo) Erotics of Death in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Rose Terry Cooke, and Edgar Allan Poe

239

(23)

Ralph J. Poole

The Five Million Women of My Race: Negotiations of Gender in W.E.B. Du Bois and Anna Julia Cooper

262

(19)

Hanna Wallinger

Woman Thinking: Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the American Scholar

281

(25)

Lindsey Traub

How Conscious Could Consciousness Grow? Emily Dickinson and William James

306

(27)

Susan Manning

Contributors

333

(4)

Index

337

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Soft Canons: American Women Writers and the Masculine Tradition

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