The Routledge introduction to American women writers / Wendy Martin and Sharone Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Wendy, 1940- author.

Williams, Sharone, author.

Series:

Routledge introductions to American literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Women and literature--United States.

Women and literature.

American literature--Women authors.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 255 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers considers the important literary, historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present and provides readers with an analysis of current literary trends and debates in women's literature. This accessible and engaging guide covers a variety of essential topics, such as: the transatlantic and transnational origins of American women's literary traditions, the colonial period and the Puritans, the early national period and the rhetoric of independence, the nineteenth century and the Civil War, the twentieth century, including modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights era, trends in twenty-first century American women's writing, feminism, gender and sexuality, regionalism, domesticity, ethnicity, and multiculturalism. The volume examines the ways in which women writers from diverse racial, social, and cultural backgrounds have shaped American literary traditions, giving particular attention to the ways writers worked inside, outside, and around the strictures of their cultural and historical moments to create space for women's voices and experiences as a vital part of American life. Addressing key contemporary and theoretical debates, this comprehensive overview presents a highly readable narrative of the development of literature by American women and offers a crucial range of perspectives on American literary history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Across the Atlantic: women in British North America

Rhetoric and revolution: women and the new republic

Sentimental poets and scribbling women: the writers of the early nineteenth century

From true woman to new woman: redefining womanhood at the turn of the century

Clashes with modernity: women writers between the world wars

Literatures of witness: women writers after 1945

Coda: The literatures of the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138016231

1138016233

9781138016248

1138016241

OCLC:

927192302