{"product_id":"reclaiming-authorship-literary-women-in-america-185-19-hardback-9780812239423","title":"Reclaiming Authorship; Literary Women in America, 185-19 (Hardback) 9780812239423","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReclaiming Authorship\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiterary Women in America, 185-19\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSusan S. Williams (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812239423\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 June 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 17 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 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\"\u003ci\u003eReclaiming Authorship\u003c\/i\u003e augments our knowledge of the female literary tradition and enriches our grasp of the process by which women authors sought public status in a literary publishing marketplace which was (and remains) customarily considered to be a masculine realm. It challenges, moreover, basic tenets of the origins of realism and does so by positing a definable historical transition from the romantic and sentimental to the realist.\" (Cecelia Tichi, Vanderbilt University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was, in the nineteenth century, a distinction made between \"writers\" and \"authors,\" Susan S. Williams notes, the former defined as those who composed primarily from mere experience or observation rather than from the unique genius or imagination of the latter. If women were more often cast as writers than authors by the literary establishment, there also emerged in magazines, advice books, fictional accounts, and letters a specific model of female authorship, one that valorized \"natural\" feminine traits such as observation and emphasis on detail, while also representing the distance between amateur writing and professional authorship.\u003cbr\u003e Attending to biographical and cultural contexts and offering fresh readings of literary works, \u003ci\u003eReclaiming Authorship\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the complex ways writers such as Maria S. Cummins, Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Abigail Dodge, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Constance Fenimore Woolson put this model of female authorship into practice. Williams shows how it sometimes intersected with prevailing notions of male authorship and sometimes diverged from them, and how it is often precisely those moments of divergence when authorship was reclaimed by women.\u003cbr\u003e The current trend to examine \"women writers\" rather than \"authors\" marks a full rotation of the circle, and \"writers\" can indeed be the more capacious term, embracing producers of everything from letters and diaries to published books. Yet certain nineteenth-century women made particular efforts to claim the title \"author,\" Williams demonstrates, and we miss something of significance by ignoring their efforts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Defining Female Authorship\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Writing in and out of the Home: Parlor Culture and Authorship\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Authorizing Reception: Maria Cummins and The Lamplighter\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Revising Romance: Louisa May Alcott, Hawthorne, and the Civil War\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Contractual Authorship: Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Abigail Dodge\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Ethical Authorship\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Epilogue: Amateurs and Professionals in Woolson and James\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555708301592,"sku":"9780812239423","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/reclaiming-authorship-literary-women-in-america-185-19-hardback-9780812239423","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}