| Description |
xxix, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The postcolonial culture of early American women's writing / Rosemarie Zagarri -- Women in public / Dana D. Nelson -- Antebellum politics and women's writing / Stephanie A. Smith -- Captivity and the literary imagination / Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola -- Nineteenth-century American women's poetry / Elizabeth Petrino -- Women at war / Shirley Samuels -- Women, anti-catholicism, and narrative in nineteenth-century America / Susan Griffin -- Immigration and assimilation in nineteenth-century US women's writing / Priscilla Wald -- The uses of writing in Margaret Bayard Smith's new nation / Fredrika J. Teute -- The sentimental novel : the example of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Gail K. Smith -- African-American women's spiritual narratives / Yolanda Pierce -- The postbellum reform writings of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps / Lisa A. Long -- "Strenuous artistry : Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons / Sandra A. Zagarell -- Minnie's Sacrifice : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's narrative of citizenship / Farah Jasmine Griffin. |
| 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 -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Added Author |
Bauer, Dale M., 1956-
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Gould, Philip, 1960-
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| ISBN |
0521669758 paperback |
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0521660033 hardback |
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