The Morgesons and other writings, published and unpublished / by Elizabeth Stoddard ; edited, with a critical introduction, by Lawrence Buell and Sandra A. Zagarell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902.

Contributor:

Buell, Lawrence.

Zagarell, Sandra A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."—from the IntroductionThe centerpiece of this volume is The Morgesons (1862), one of the few outstanding feminist bildungsromanae of that century. Additional selections include arresting short stories and provocative journalistic essays/reviews, plus a number of letters and manuscript journals that have never before been published. The texts are fully edited and documented.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface And Acknowledgments

Biographcal And Critical Introduction

A Guide to Writings by and About Ehabeth Stoddard

Chronology

The Morgesons

Short Fiction

Early Journalism

Manuscripts

Emendation

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

6th paperback printing 1996.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613212443

9781283212441

1283212447

9780812205602

081220560X

9780585127347

0585127344

OCLC:

759158206