Nineteenth Century American Womens Novels

Author : Susan K. Harris
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521428705
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels written by Susan K. Harris and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1992-03-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Hollis Robbins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143130676
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers written by Hollis Robbins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy of African American women writers. Many of these pieces engage with social movements like abolition, women’s suffrage, temperance, and civil rights, but the thematic center is the intellect and personal ambition of African American women. The diverse selection includes well-known writers like Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, and Harriet Jacobs, as well as lesser-known writers like Ella Sheppard, who offers a firsthand account of life in the world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers. Taken together, these incredible works insist that the writing of African American women writers be read, remembered, and addressed. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Dale M. Bauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108486541
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels written by Dale M. Bauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovers the careers of four US women serial writers, and establishes a new archive for American literary studies.

Author : Susan K. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521428705
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels written by Susan K. Harris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nina Baym
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062858
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman's Fiction written by Nina Baym and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Susan K. Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book 19th Century American Women's Novels: Interpretative Strategies written by Susan K. Harris and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780460879385
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scribbling Women written by Elaine Showalter and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique collection of short stories by American women writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather, edited by Elaine Showalter. Chosen by one of America's most eminent scholars, SCRIBBLING WOMEN collects together theshort stories of the great American women writers of the nineteenth century in a "rich and splendid anthology [which] pulls us right into modern women's literature" The Tribune Magazine

Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231109208
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century written by Catherine Clinton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Author : Judith Fetterley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253203496
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Provisions written by Judith Fetterley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1985-10-22 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This valuable collection . . . should shift the ground of discourse on mid-19th-century American literature." —Publishers Weekly This unique collection has recovered for us the work of sixteen women who wrote during the years when American writers were developing their distinctive styles and voices.

Author : Christine Palumbo-DeSimone
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638408
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharing Secrets written by Christine Palumbo-DeSimone and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The study reveals how the female world ultimately defined what constituted a "story" for nineteenth-century women, and presents a way for today's reader to approach these sometimes puzzling works of short fiction."--BOOK JACKET.