Separate spheres no more : gender convergence in American literature, 1830-1930 / edited by Monika M. Elbert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elbert, Monika M. (Monika Maria), 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role in literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.

Gender identity in literature.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2000.

Summary:

Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been ""ghettoized"" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of classroom teaching. While some of the essays pair up female and male authors who write in a similar style or with similar concerns, others address social issues shared by both men and women, including class tensions, economic problems, and the Ci

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Intertextuality and Authorial Interconnectedness; 1. To Be a ""Parlor Soldier"": Susan Warner's Answer to Emerson's ""Self-Reliance""; 2. ""Astra Castra"": Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Harriet Prescott Spofford; 3. The War of Susie King Taylor; 4. No Separations in the City: The Public-Private Novel and Private-Public Authorship; Part II. Body Politics: Framing the Female Body; 5. The Ungendered Terrain of Good Health: Mary Gove Nichols's Rewriting of the Diseased Institution of Marriage

6. Male Doctors and Female Illness in American Women's Fiction, 1850-19007. Gender Bending: Two Role-Reversal Utopias by Nineteenth-Century Women; Part III. On the Home Front and Beyond: Domesticity and the Marketplace; 8. A Homely Business: Melusina Fay Peirce and Late-Nineteenth-Century Cooperative Housekeeping; 9. Narratives of Domestic Imperialism: The African-American Home in the Colored American Magazine and the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, 1900-1903; 10. Public Women, Private Acts: Gender and Theater in Turn-of-the-Century American Novels; Part IV. Sentimental Subversions

11. Gender Valences of Transcendentalism: The Pursuit of Idealism in Elizabeth Oakes-Smith's ""The Sinless Child""12. Sentimental Epistemologies in Uncle Tom's Cabin and The House of the Seven Gables; 13. ""I Try to Make the Reader Feel"": The Resurrection of Bess Streeter Aldrich's A Lantern in Her Hand and the Politics of the Literary Canon; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8759-5

0-585-37920-3

OCLC:

48139138