| Description |
viii, 291 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-280) and index. |
| Contents |
Part One. Reenvisioning traditional regionalism. Origins of American literary regionalism: gender in Irving, Stowe, Longstreet / Marjorie Pryse ; Theorizing regionalism: Celia Thaxter's Among the Isles of Shoals. / Judith Fetterley ; Why, why do we not write our side?' gender and Southern presentation in Grace King's Balcony Stories / Lori Robinson ; Emplotting national history: regionalism and Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces / Francesca Sawaya ; Making the strange(r) familiar: Sarah Orne Jewett's "The foreigner" / Cynthia J. Davis ; Regionalist bodies/embodied regions: Sarah Orne Jewett and Zitkala-Sa / D.K. Meisenheimer, Jr. ; "There was a part for her in the Indian life": Mary Austin, regionalism, and the problems of appropriation / Noreen Groover -- Part two. Expanding the genre. Writing the Midwest: Meridel Le Sueur and the making of a radical regional tradition / Julia Mickenberg ; "Wherever I am living": the "Lady of the Limberlost" resituates / Barbara Ryan ; In pursuit of regional and cultural identity: the autobiographies of Agnes Morely Cleaveland and Fabiola Cabeza de Baca / Becky Jo Gesteland McShane ; "A mutual journey": Wilma Dykeman and Appalachian regionalism / Patricia M. Gantt ; Sidestepping environmental justice: "natural" landscapes and the wilderness plot / Krista Comer ; Not just any land: Linda Hasselstrom at home on the American grasslands / John T. Price. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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Women and literature -- United States.
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Women and literature. |
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United States. |
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United States -- In literature.
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Regionalism -- United States.
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Regionalism. |
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Regionalism in literature.
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Regionalism in literature. |
| Added Author |
Inness, Sherrie A.
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Royer, Diana, 1959-
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| ISBN |
0877456038 paperback acid-free paper |
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087745602X acid-free paper |
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