Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels
Title | Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels PDF eBook |
Author | Dale M. Bauer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 195 |
Release | 2019-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108486541 |
Recovers the careers of four US women serial writers, and establishes a new archive for American literary studies.
Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels
Title | Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels PDF eBook |
Author | Susan K. Harris |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 1992-03-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521428705 |
This study proposes interpretive strategies for nineteenth-century American women's novels. Harris contends that women in the nineteenth century read subversively, 'processing texts according to gender based imperatives'. Beginning with Susannah Rowson's best-selling seduction novel Charlotte Temple (1791), and ending with Willa Cather's O Pioneers! (1913), Harris scans white, middle-class women's writing throughout the nineteenth century. In the process she both explores reading behaviour and formulates a literary history for mainstream nineteenth-century American women's fiction. Through most of the twentieth century, women's novels of the earlier period have been denigrated as conventional, sentimental, and overwritten. Harris shows that these conditions are actually narrative strategies, rooted in cultural imperatives and, paradoxically, integral to the later development of women's texts that call for women's independence. Working with actual women's diaries and letters, Harris first shows what contemporary women sought from the books they read. She then applies these reading strategies to the most popular novels of the period, proving that even the most apparently retrograde demonstrate their heroines' abilities to create and control areas culturally defined as male.
Woman's Fiction
Title | Woman's Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Nina Baym |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 364 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780252062858 |
This reissue of the pioneering and standard book on antebellum women's domestic novels contains a new introduction situating the book in the context of important recent developments in the study of women's writing. Nina Baym considers 130 novels by 48 women, focusing on the works of a dozen especially productive and successful writers. Woman's Fiction is a major-work in nineteenth-century literature, reexamining changes in the literary canon and the meaning of sentimentalism, while responding to current critical discussions of 'the body' in literary texts. ''Informative and stimulating. . . . Nina Baym has undertaken a systematic analysis of that nineteenth-century American fiction normally dismissed as at best trivially sentimental. . . . Woman's Fiction offers a fresh perspective on a largely forgotten body of literature.'' -- American Literature''Perceives in the fiction of, by, and for women in the period stated a popular genre that made a particular kind of feminist avowal for the times, one that rejected the concept of helplessness and urged the application of intelligence and courage to trying situations. . . . Baym marshals ample supporting evidence from the outpouring of such fiction.'' - ALA Booklist
19th Century American Women's Novels: Interpretative Strategies
Title | 19th Century American Women's Novels: Interpretative Strategies PDF eBook |
Author | Susan K. Harris |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | American fiction |
ISBN |
Provisions
Title | Provisions PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Fetterley |
Publisher | Bloomington : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 488 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
This collection is unique. Judith Fetterley has recovered for us the work of sixteen women who wrote during the years when America writers were developing their distinctive styles and voices. In re-viewing the literature of 19th century America, she fives us the whole picture, setting the literary and historical contexts and allowing us to see the development of prose content and form from 1830 to 1865.
The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century
Title | The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Clinton |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Women |
ISBN | 9780231109208 |
A convenient handbook of dates, names, terms, and resources as well as a highly readable overview of the pivotal role of women in a century of profound political and social change. The authors emphasize areas in which scholars have identified important changes (such as suffrage and reform), topics in which researchers are now making great strides (such as racial, ethnic, religious, and regional diversity), and innovative and relatively recent explorations (for example, work on female sexuality).
Scribbling Women
Title | Scribbling Women PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Showalter |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 515 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | American fiction |
ISBN | 9780460878609 |
A unique collection of short stories by American women such as Louisa May AlcottEdith Wharton and Willa Cather, edited by Elaine Showalter.