The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

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Dale M. Bauer, Philip Gould
Cambridge University Press, 15 nov. 2001 - 336 sidor
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing is a specially commissioned collection designed for use by students. Providing an overview of the history of writing by women in the period, it establishes the context in which this writing emerged, and traces the origin of the terms which have traditionally defined the debate. It examines the work a variety of women writers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis and Louisa May Alcott. The volume provides several valuable tools for students, including a chronology of works and suggestions for further reading.

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The postcolonial culture of early American womens writing
19
Women in public
38
Antebellum politics and womens writing
69
Captivity and the literary imagination
105
Nineteenthcentury American womens poetry
122
Women at war
143
Women antiCatholicism and narrative in nineteenthcentury America
157
Immigration and assimilation in nineteenthcentury US womens writing
176
The sentimental novel the example of Harriet Beecher Stowe
221
AfricanAmerican womens spiritual narratives
244
The postbellum reform writings of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
262
Strenuous Artistry Elizabeth Stoddards The Morgesons
284
FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN Minnies Sacrifice Frances Ellen Watkins Harpers narrative of citizenship
308
Conclusion
320
Index
328
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The uses of writing in Margaret Bayard Smiths new nation
203

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