{"product_id":"nineteenth-century-american-women-writers-a-critical-reader-hardback-9780631200536","title":"Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers; A Critical Reader (Hardback) 9780631200536","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNineteenth-Century American Women Writers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Critical Reader\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKaren L. Kilcup (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631200536, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 September 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e265 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.517 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Suitable for both scholars and students, offering a broad overview of the field as well as attention to detail. Throws open questions for debate.\" \u003ci\u003eParatexte \u003c\/i\u003e(trans.)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis critical reader, specifically designed to accompany the anthology, contains twelve original essays - ten newly-written - on a wide range of topics, together with an introductory overview by the editor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResponding to the rich generic and thematic diversity of the writing represented in \u003ci\u003eNineteenth-century American Women Writers: An Anthology,\u003c\/i\u003e also edited by Karen L. Kilcup, this critical reader, specifically designed to accompany the anthology, contains twelve original essays - ten newly-written - on a wide range of topics, together with an introductory overview by the editor. The volume explores for students and scholars the interwoven matters of history, canonicity, and criticism, highlighting the collective importance of nineteenth-century women's writing, an illuminating in particular the complex hybrid texts and shorter genres that many women produced.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe essays address large conceptual issues and offer suggestive close readings of individual texts. They ask such questions as:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow do these texts use and \"misuse\" the conventions of their time to create new perspectives, forms, and voices?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat are the connections between various kinds of texts, writers, and genres?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow do issues of identity and location inform the writing and our interpretations of it?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat aesthetic, cultural, and political issues do these writers raise, both in their content and in their formal experiments?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopics covered include: literary nationalism and regionalism; Southern and western women writers; tradition and transformation in Native American and Mexican American women authors; race, reform, and sentimentality; disability, sentimentality and femininity; women's economic independence; spirituality and class in African-American women's literature; gender, genre, and feminist discourse; women poets and the cannon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: A Conversation on Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Karen Kilcup.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Not in the Least American\":\u003c\/i\u003e Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism as UnAmerican Literature: Judith Fetterley (University at Albany, SUNY).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiving With Difference: Nineteenth-Century Southern Women Writers: Nancy A. Walker (Vanderbilt University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWestern Biodiversity: Rereading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Melody Graulich (University of New Hampshire).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A Tolerance For Contradictions\"\u003c\/i\u003e:The Short Stories of Maria Cristina Mena: Tiffany Ana L¢pez (University of California, Riverside).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Native American Women Authors: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, E. Pauline Johnson, and Zitkala-a: A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff (University of Illinois, Chicago).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNature, Nurture, and Nationalism: \u003ci\u003e\"A Faded Leaf of History\":\u003c\/i\u003e Jean Pfaelzer (University of Delaware).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrippled Girls and Lame Old Women: Sentimental Spectacles of Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Rosemarie Garland Thomson (Howard University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFracturing Gender: Women's Economic Independence: Joyce Warren (Queens College, CUNY).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTo Labor. . . And Fight on the Side of God\"\u003c\/i\u003e:Spirit, Class, and Nineteenth-Century African-American Women's Literature: Barbara McCaskill (University of Georgia).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Essays of Invention\"\u003c\/i\u003e:Transformations of Advice in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Karen L. Kilcup (University of North Carolina, Greensboro).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInventing a Feminist Discourse: Rhetoric and Resistance in Margaret Fuller's Women In The Nineteenth Century: Annette Kolodny (University of Arizonia).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNineteenth-Century American Women Poets Revisited: Cheryl Walker (Scripps College).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52316782657816,"sku":"9780631200536","price":72.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780631200536.jpg?v=1781825386","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/nineteenth-century-american-women-writers-a-critical-reader-hardback-9780631200536","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}