| Description |
xv, 409 pages : portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Douglass series on women's lives and the meaning of gender
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Douglass series on women's lives and the meaning of gender.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-395) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Early didacticism : the novel of seduction -- Charlotte, a tale of truth (1794) / Susanna Haswell Rowson -- Coquette (1797) / Hannah Webster Foster -- Part II. Melodrama -- Dorval (1801) / Sally Barrell Wood -- Hidden hand (1859) / E.D.E.N. Southworth -- St. Elmo (1866) / Augusta Evans Wilson -- Part III. Frontier romance -- History of Maria Kittle (1791) / Ann Eliza Schuyler Bleecker -- Hobomok (1824) / Lydia Maria Francis Child -- Hope Leslie (1827) / Catharine Maria Sedgwick -- Part IV. Satire and humor -- Female Quixotism (1801) / Tabitha Gilman Tenney -- Widow Bedott papers (1856)/ Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher -- Part V. Early realism -- Northwood (1827) / Sarah Josepha Buell Hale -- A new home -- who'll follow? (1839) / Caroline Stansbury Kirkland -- Part VI. Later didacticism : the novel of education -- Wide, wide world (1850) / Susan Warner -- Lamplighter (1854) / Maria Cummins -- Elsie Dinsmore (1867) / Martha Finley -- Part VII. Polemic : slavery, temperance, and women's rights -- Planter's Northern bride (1854) / Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl (1861) / Harriet Brent Jacobs [Linda Brent] -- Senator's son (1853) / Metta Fuller Victor -- A pilgrimage (1852) / Caroline Chesebro -- Ruth Hall (1855) / Sara Willis Parton [Fanny Hall] -- Part VIII. Criticism -- Letters to William D. Ticknor (1854-1857) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- 'Female authors' (1851) / A.W. Abbott -- "The 'scribbling women' and Fanny Fern : Why women wrote" (1971) / Ann Douglas Wood -- 'How should women write?' (1860) / Mary E. Bryan -- 'The domestic sentimentalists and other popular writers' (1948) / Alexander Cowie -- All the happy endings (1956) / Helen Waite Papashvily -- Woman's fiction (1978) / Nina Baym -- 'The other American renaissance' (1985) / Jane P. Tompkins. |
| Summary |
"Provides profiles of early American women writers, offers selections from their novels, and gathers selected criticism" --Amazon. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Women authors.
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American fiction -- Women authors. |
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American fiction -- 19th century.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Roman américain -- 19e siècle -- Anthologies. |
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Écrits de femmes américains. |
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Anthologie. |
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Frauenliteratur. |
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University of South Alabama. |
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Anthologie. |
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USA. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1790-1870. |
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1800-1899 |
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Geschichte 1790-1870. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Freibert, Lucy M., 1922-2016.
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White, Barbara A., 1942-
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| ISBN |
0813510880 |
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9780813510880 |
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0813510899 (paperback) |
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9780813510897 (paperback) |
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