The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature

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Edited by Dale M. Bauer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: September 2012
Print publication year:: 2012
Online ISBN:: 9780511735912
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9781107001374

Subjects:: Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies
Collection:: Cambridge Histories - Literature

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The field of American women's writing is one characterized by innovation: scholars are discovering new authors and works, as well as new ways of historicizing this literature, rethinking contexts, categories and juxtapositions. Now, after three decades of scholarly investigation and innovation, the rich complexity and diversity of American literature written by women can be seen with a new coherence and subtlety. Dedicated to this expanding heterogeneity, The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature develops and challenges historical, cultural, theoretical, even polemical methods, all of which will advance the future study of American women writers – from Native Americans to postmodern communities, from individual careers to communities of writers and readers. This volume immerses readers in a new dialogue about the range and depth of women's literature in the United States and allows them to trace the ever-evolving shape of the field.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-viii

List of illustrations
pp ix-ix

Acknowledgements
pp x-x

Notes on contributors
pp xi-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-10

1 - The stories we tell: American Indian women's writing and the persistence of tradition
pp 11-29

2 - Women writers and war
pp 30-54

3 - American women's writing in the colonial period
pp 55-73

4 - Religion, sensibility, and sympathy
pp 74-90

5 - Women's writing of the Revolutionary era
pp 91-118

6 - Women writers and the early US novel
pp 119-139

7 - Women in literary culture during the long nineteenth century
pp 139-164

8 - Moral authority as literary property in mid-nineteenth-century print culture
pp 165-184

9 - The shape of Catharine Sedgwick's career
pp 185-203

10 - Writing, authorship, and genius: literary women and modes of literary production
pp 204-231

11 - Nineteenth-century American women's poetry: past and prospects
pp 232-255

12 - Transatlantic sympathies and nineteenth-century women's writing
pp 256-272

13 - Nineteenth-century African American women writers
pp 273-292

14 - Local knowledge and women's regional writing
pp 293-308

15 - Women and children first: female writers of American children's literature
pp 309-325

16 - US suffrage literature
pp 326-351

17 - American women playwrights
pp 352-368

18 - Turn-of-the-twentieth-century transitions: women on the edge of tomorrow
pp 369-386

19 - Accidents, agency, and American literary naturalism
pp 387-403

20 - The geography of ladyhood: racializing the novel of manners
pp 404-421

21 - Self-made women: novelists of the 1920s
pp 422-445

22 - Recovering the legacy of Zara Wright and the twentieth-century black woman writer
pp 446-457

23 - Jewish American women writers
pp 458-476

24 - Women on the breadlines
pp 477-500

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