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The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

by Joyce W. Warren. 314 pgs.

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Table of contents
CONTENTS
Preface vii
JOYCE W. WARREN Introduction: Canons and Canon Fodder 1
THE WRITERS
JANE TOMPKINS Susanna Rowson, Father of the American Novel 29
CAROL J. SINGLEY Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie: Radical Frontier Romance 39
NINA BAYM Reinventing Lydia Sigoumey 54
JOYCE W. WARREN Domesticity and the Economics of Independence: Resistance and Revolution in the Work of Fanny Fem 73
FRANCES SMITH FOSTER Harriet Jacobs's Incidents and the "Careless Daughters" (and Sons) Who Read It 92
JUDITH FETTERLEY Only a Story, Not a Romance: Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Pearl of Orr's Island 108
KARLA F. C. HOLLOWAY Economies of Space: Markets and Marketability in Our Nig and Iola Leroy 126
THE TRADITIONS
SANDRA A. ZAGARELL "America" as Community in Three Antebellum Village Sketches 143
JOANNE DOBSON The American Renaissance Reenvisioned 164
CARLA L. PETERSON "Doers of the Word": Theorizing African-American Women Writers in the Antebellum North 183
DEBORAH CARLIN "What Methods Have Brought Blessing": Discourses of Reform in Philanthropic Literature 203
JOSEPHINE DONOVAN Breaking the Sentence: Local-Color Literature and Subjugated Knowledges 226
DIANE LICHTENSTEIN The Tradition of American Jewish Women Writers 244
SUSAN K. HARRIS "But is it any good?": Evaluating Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction 263
PAUL LAUTER Teaching Nineteenth-Century Women Writers 280
Contributors 303
Index 307
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