Challenging boundaries : gender and periodization / edited by Joyce W. Warren and Margaret Dickie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Warren, Joyce W.

Dickie, Margaret, 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Feminism and literature--United States--History.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature--United States--History.

Women and literature.

American literature--Periodization.

Feminist literary criticism.

Authorship--Sex differences.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What if the American literary canon were expanded to consistently represent women writers, who do not always fit easily into genres and periods established on the basis of men's writings? How would the study of American literature benefit from this long-needed revision? This timely collection of essays by fourteen women writers breaks new ground in American literary study. Not content to rediscover and awkwardly "fit" female writers into the "white male" scheme of anthologies and college courses, editors Margaret Dickie and Joyce W. Warren question the current boundaries of literary periods, advocating a revised literary canon. The essays consider a wide range of American women writers, including Mary Rowlandson, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Frances Harper, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Amy Lowell and Adrienne Rich, discussing how the present classification of these writers by periods affects our reading of their work. Beyond the focus of feminist challenges to American literary periodization, this volume also studies issues of a need for literary reforms considering differences in race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. The essays are valuable and informative as individual critical studies of specific writers and their works. Challenging Boundaries presents intelligent, original, well-written, and practical arguments in support of long-awaited changes in American literary scholarship and is a milestone of feminist literary study.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

The Challenge of Women's Periods

ONE: CHALLENGING BOUNDARIES

Performativity and the Repositioning of American Literary Realism

Women's Masterpieces

Frances Harper, Charlotte Forten, and African American Literary Reconstruction

A Queer Lot" and the Lesbians of 1914: Amy Lowell, H.D., and Gertrude Stein

Black Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance

Complications of Feminist and Ethnic Literary Theories in Asian American Literature

TWO: RE(DE)FRAMINGS

American Puritanism" and Mary White Rowlandson's Narrative

Essential, Portable, Mythical Margaret Fuller

Emily Dickinson in History and Literary History

María Amparo Ruiz de Burton Negotiates American Literary Politics and Culture

Edith Wharton's Ironic Realism

The "Founding Mother": Gertrude Stein and the Cubist Phenomenon

The Self-Categorization, Self-Canonization, and Self-Periodization of Adrienne Rich

List of Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-49145-0

9786613586681

0-8203-4353-6

OCLC:

794306972