The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature

doi:10.1017/CHOL9781107001374

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
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Contents
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List of illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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Notes on contributors
pp xi-xvi
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Introduction
pp 1-10
- By Dale Bauer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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1 - The stories we tell: American Indian women's writing and the persistence of tradition
pp 11-29
- By Jodi Byrd, University of Illinois
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2 - Women writers and war
pp 30-54
- By Jonathan Vincent, University of Louisville
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3 - American women's writing in the colonial period
pp 55-73
- By Kirstin Wilcox, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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4 - Religion, sensibility, and sympathy
pp 74-90
- By Sandra Gustafson, University of Notre Dame
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5 - Women's writing of the Revolutionary era
pp 91-118
- By Jennifer Baker, New York University
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6 - Women writers and the early US novel
pp 119-139
- By Andy Doolen, University of Kentucky
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7 - Women in literary culture during the long nineteenth century
pp 139-164
- By Nancy Glazener, University of Pittsburgh
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8 - Moral authority as literary property in mid-nineteenth-century print culture
pp 165-184
- By Susan Ryan, University of Louisville
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9 - The shape of Catharine Sedgwick's career
pp 185-203
- By Melissa Homestead, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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10 - Writing, authorship, and genius: literary women and modes of literary production
pp 204-231
- By Susan Williams, Ohio State University
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11 - Nineteenth-century American women's poetry: past and prospects
pp 232-255
- By Elizabeth Renker, Ohio State University
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12 - Transatlantic sympathies and nineteenth-century women's writing
pp 256-272
- By Susan Bernstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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13 - Nineteenth-century African American women writers
pp 273-292
- By John Ernest, West Virginia University
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14 - Local knowledge and women's regional writing
pp 293-308
- By Stephanie Foote, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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15 - Women and children first: female writers of American children's literature
pp 309-325
- By Carol Singley, Rutgers University-Camden
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16 - US suffrage literature
pp 326-351
- By Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia
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17 - American women playwrights
pp 352-368
- By Brenda Murphy, University of Connecticut
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18 - Turn-of-the-twentieth-century transitions: women on the edge of tomorrow
pp 369-386
- By Stephanie Smith, University of Florida
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19 - Accidents, agency, and American literary naturalism
pp 387-403
- By Jennifer Travis, St. John’s University in New York
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20 - The geography of ladyhood: racializing the novel of manners
pp 404-421
- By Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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21 - Self-made women: novelists of the 1920s
pp 422-445
- By Jean Lutes, Villanova University
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22 - Recovering the legacy of Zara Wright and the twentieth-century black woman writer
pp 446-457
- By Rynetta Davis, University of Kentucky
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23 - Jewish American women writers
pp 458-476
- By Hana Wirth-Nesher, Tel Aviv University
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24 - Women on the breadlines
pp 477-500
- By John Marsh, Pennsylvania State University
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