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Reclaiming authorship : literary women in America, 1850-1900 / Susan S. Williams.
LIBRA PS217.W64 W55 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Susan S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- American literature--Women authors.
- United States.
- History.
- Authorship.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- ""Reclaiming Authorship" augments our knowledge of the female literary tradition and enriches our grasp of the process by which women authors sought public status in a publishing marketplace. It challenges basic tenets of the origins of realism and posits a definable historical transition from the romantic to the realist."--Cecelia Tichi
- Contents:
- Definining female authorship
- Writing in and out of the home : parlor culture and authorship
- Authorizing reception : Maria Cummins and The lamplighter
- Revising romance : Louisa May Alcott, Hawthorne, and the Civil War
- Contractual authorship : Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Abigail Dodge
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelp's ethical authorship
- Epilogue : amateurs and professionals in Woolson and James.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-243) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812239423
- OCLC:
- 62790070
- Publisher Number:
- 9780812239423
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