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Domesticity with a Difference: The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller
by Nicole Tonkovich. 230 pgs.

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A study of works by four professional women of the nineteenth century who prescribed domestic lives for others of their sex.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction:: Eccentric Domesticity

Chapter One:: Her Father's Best Boy: Catharine Beecher and Margaret Fuller

Chapter Two:: Fatherless Daughters: Sarah Josepha Hale and Fanny Fern

Chapter Three:: Patronymics, Property, and Proper Naming

Chapter Four:: Domestic Masquerade

Chapter Five:: The Domestic Manners of American Ladies

Chapter Six:: Domesticated Eloquence

Chapter Seven:: The Difference between Authors and Servants

Chapter Eight:: Domesticating Pedagogy

Chapter Nine:: Domesticity with a Difference

Notes

Bibliography

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The Other American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers ("Domesticity and the Economics of Independence: Resistance and Revolution in the Work of Fanny Fern" begins on p. 73)
by Joyce W. Warren. 314 pgs.

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Preface

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Introduction: Canons and Canon Fodder

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The Writers

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie:: Radical Frontier Romance

Nina Baym Reinventing Lydia Sigourney

Domesticity and the Economics Of Independence: Resistance and Revolution In The Work of Fanny Fern

Harriet Jacobs's Incidents And the "Careless Daughters" (and Sons) Who Read It

Only a Story, Not a Romance: Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Pearl of Orr's Island

Economies of Space: Markets and Marketability In Our Nig and Iola Leroy

The Traditions

"America" as Community In Three Antebellum Village Sketches

The American Renaissance Reenvisioned

"Doers of the Word": Theorizing African-American Women Writers in the Antebellum North

Breaking the Sentence: Local-Color Literature And Subjugated Knowledges

The Tradition of American Jewish Women Writers

"But is It Any Good?": Evaluating Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction

Teaching Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

Contributors

Index
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Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature ("Fanny Fern: 'It's a Way I Have When I Can't Find a Razor Handy to Cut my Throat'" begins on p. 48)
by Gregg Camfield. 240 pgs.

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One Humor in a Heartless Haven

Two Home in a Rage

Three Tending the Home Fires

Four Home, Sweat Home

Five Madness Runs in Families

Six Humorneutics

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930 (Chap. 4 "No Separations in the City: The Public-Private Novel and Private-Public Authorship")
by Monika M. Elbert. 310 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

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Part I: Intertextuality And Authorial Interconnectedness

I: 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

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, 1850-1900

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7: 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

II: 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
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Eminent Women of the Age: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the Most Prominent Women of the Present Generation ("Fanny Fern -- Mrs. Parton" begins on p. 66)
by James Parton. 628 pgs.

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Florence Nightingale.

Lydia Maria Child.

Fanny Fern -- Mrs. Parton.

Lydia H. Sigourney.

Mrs. Frances Anne Kemble.

Eugenie, Empress of the French.

Grace Greenwood -- Mrs. LIppincott

Alice and Phebe Cary.

Margaret Fuller Ossoli.

Gail Hamilton -- Miss Dodge.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Jenny LInd Goldschmidt.

Our Pioneer Educators.

Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

The Woman's Rights Movement and Its Champions in the United States.

Victoria, Queen of England.

Eminent Women of the Drama.

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson.

Woman as Physician.

Camilla Urso.

Harriet G. Hosmer.

Rosa Bonheur.

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe.
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Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930 (Chap. 2 "American Women's Fiction, 1850-1880: Domestic Discourses in the Writings of Fanny Fern, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Wilson")
by Martha J. Cutter. 228 pgs.

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A study of how women writers found ways to sound an authoritative voice in the male-dominated world.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Problem of Voice in American culture, 1850-1930

2: American Women's Fiction, 1850-1880: Domestic Discourses in the Writings of Fanny Fern, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Wilson

3: From the Law of the Father to the Law of the Feminine Mary Wilkins Freeman's and Anna Julia Cooper's Revisionary Voices

4: The Search for a Feminine Voice in the Works of Kate Chopin

5: Herstory in Hisland, History in Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Reconstruction of Gender and Language

6: The Politics of Hybridity in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy

7: Jessie Fauset's and Willa Cather's Metalinguistic, Ethnic Discourses

8: Coda Beyond the Binary?

Notes

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Index
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Criticism and the Color Line: Desegregating American Literary Studies ("The Politics of Mourning: Cultural Grief-Work from Frederick Douglass to Fanny Fern")
by Henry B. Wonham. 300 pgs.

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For my parents

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature

Mr. Clemens and Jim Crow: Twain, Race, and Blackface

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"Who I Was": Ethnic Identity and American Literary Ethnocentrism

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Reading Black, White, and Gray in 1968: The Origins of the Contemporary Narrativity of Slavery

The Politics of Mourning: Cultural Grief-Work from Frederick Douglass to Fanny Fern

Black and White Voices in an Early African-American Colonization Narrative: Problems of Genre and Emergence

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Howells, Du Bois, and the Effect of "Common-Sense": Race, Realism, and Nervousness in An Imperative Duty and The Souls of Black Folk

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The Remaking of Americans: Gertrude Stein's "Melanctha" and African-American Musical Traditions

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The Master's Tools Revisited: Foundation Work in Anna Julia Cooper

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The African-American Presence in Stowe's Dred

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Sentimental Abolition in Douglass's Decade: Revision, Erotic Conversion, and the Politics of Witnessing in "The Heroic Slave" and My Bondage and My Freedom

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The Blind Leading the Blind: The Racial Gaze as Plot Dilemma in "Benito Cereno" and "The Heroic Slave"

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The Ghost of Race: Edgar Allan Poe and the Southern Gothic

Interrogating "Whiteness," Complicating "Blackness":: Remapping American Culture

Notes on Contributors

Index
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Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print (Chap. Two "Cacoethes Scribendi: Women Writers Among the Paying Periodicals")
by Ronald Weber. 324 pgs.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Prologue CLEVER AUTHORS OF ACCEPTABLE WORK: Living by Words on America's Grub Street

One Light Artillery of the Intellect: The Emergence of the Versatile Magazinists

Two Cacoethes Scribendi: Women Writers among the Paying Periodicals

Three Laying Pipes Fiction Factories at Full Throttle

Four That Precious Over-Note: Fictioneers among the Pulps, Slicks, and Paperback Originals

Five Sublime Tramps: Newspaper Journalism and the Dream of the Writing Life

Six Writing for the Millions: Newspaper Syndicates Expand the Market

Seven Sporting Life Field, Stream, and Playing Field as Material

Eight Facts of the Matter the Vogue of Biography, History, and Current Events

Nine Brass Tacks How to Succeed at the Writing Game

Ten Gatekeepers Dominant Editors in the Glory Days of Magazines

Epilogue SWEET DEAL Writing for Hire in a New Age

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A Note about the Author
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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton) (1811-1872)" begins on p. 123)
by Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 540 pgs.

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As the American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, the influence of women writers of the nineteenth century has been reevaluated. The first book of its kind, this reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 nineteenth-century American women writers, such as Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Emma Lazarus, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the critical studies examining the writer's works, and a bibliography of works for further consultation.

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Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

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Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815-1891)

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Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1794-1845)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

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Alice Cary (1820-1871)

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Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)

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Caroline Chesebro' (Caroline Chesebrough) (1825-1873)

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Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)

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Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

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Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (Dame Shirley) (1819-1906)

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Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)

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Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841-1928)

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Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)

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Maria Susanna Cummins (1827-1866)

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Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar- Nelson (1875-1935)

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Emma Embury (1806-1863)

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Fanny Fern (sara Payson Willis Parton) (1811-1872)

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Kate Field (1838-1896)

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Martha Finley (Martha Farquharson) (1828-1909)

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

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Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

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Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935)

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Sarah Pratt Mclean Greene (1856-1935)

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Grace Greenwood (sara Jane Clarke Lippincott) (1823-1904)

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Angelina GrimkÉ: (1805-1879)

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Sarah GrimkÉ (1792-1873)

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Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879)

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Gail Hamilton (Mary Abigail Dodge) (1833-1896)

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Marion Harland (Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune) (1830-1922)

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Fances E. W. Harper (1825-1911)

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Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (1800-1856)

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Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's Wife) (1836-1926)

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Mary Jane Hawes Holmes (1825-1907)

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)

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Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891)

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Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

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Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)

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Harriet A. Jacobs (Linda Brent) (C. 1813-1897)

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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

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Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932)

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Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864)

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Lucy Larcom (1824-1893)

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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Mary Alphonsa) (1851-1926)

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Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

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Maria Jane Mcintosh (1803-1878)

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Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868)

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Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt (Ritchie): (1819-1870)

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Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock): (1850-1922)

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Elizabeth Oakes Smith: (1806-1893)

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Frances Sargent Locke Osgood: (1811-1850)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852)

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Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1849?-1916)

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Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)

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Atharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)

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Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)

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E. D. E. N. Southworth (Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth) (1819-1899)

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Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)

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Ann Sophia Stephens (1810-1886)

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Maria Stewart (1803-1879)

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Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard: (1823-1902)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

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Ruth Mcenery Stuart (1849-1917)

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Octave Thanet (Alice French) (1850-1934)

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Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894)

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (1831-1885)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-1911)

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Susan Warner (1819-1885)

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Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher (1814-1852)

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Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878)

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A. D. T. Whitney (Adeline Dutton Train Whitney) (1824-1906)

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Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909)

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Harriet E. Wilson (1827?-1863?)

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Sally S. Wood (1759-1855)

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Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)

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The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860 (Chap. 6 "Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall")
by Linda M. Grasso. 252 pgs.

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In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Linda Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history. Exploring how black and white nineteenth-century women writers defined, expressed, and dramatized anger, Grasso reconceptualizes antebellum women's writing and illuminates an unrecognized tradition of discontent in American literature. She maintains that two equally powerful forces shaped this tradition: women's anger at their exclusion from the democratic promise of America, and the cultural prohibition against its public articulation.
Grasso challenges the common notion that nineteenth-century women's writing is confined to domestic themes and shows instead how women channeled their anger into art that addresses complex political issues such as slavery, nation-building, gender arrangements, and race relations. Cutting across racial and genre boundaries, she considers works by Lydia Maria Child, Maria,W. Stewart, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Wilson as superb examples of the artistry of angry expression. Transforming their anger through literary imagination, these writers bequeathed their vision of an alternative America both to their contemporaries and to subsequent generations.

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Gender and American Culture

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Acknowledgments

Part One: Theories and Contexts

One: Anger as Analysis and Aesthetic in American Women's Literature

Two: The Antebellum Period as Case Study

Three: Nation-Building and Gendered Ideologies of Anger in Antebellum America

Part Two: Four Case Studies

Four: Anger, Exile, and Restitution in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok

Five: Maria W. Stewart's Inspired Wrath

Six: Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall

Seven: Judgment, Vengeance, and Punishment in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig

Conclusion: Making Sure the Anger Holds

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Gender and American Culture
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The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 ("Fern and Oakes: Independent versus Influential Womanhood" begins on p. 57)
by Lyde Cullen Sizer. 348 pgs.

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This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings publicly to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism, and death.
Among the authors discussed are Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Although direct political or partisan power was denied to women, these writers actively participated in discussions of national issues through their sentimental novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and letters to the editor.
Sizer pays close attention to how these mostly middle-class women attempted to create a "rhetoric of unity, " giving common purpose to women despite differences in class, race, and politics. This theme of unity was ultimately deployed to establish a white middle-class standard of womanhood, meant to exclude as well as include.

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The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: My Sphere Rounds Out Northern Women and the Written War

Chapter One: Rowing Against Wind and Tide How Women Wrote

Chapter Two: Raising a Voice the Civil War Begins in the 1850s

Chapter Three: What Can Woman Do? the Rhetoric of Unity, 1861-1863

Chapter Four: A Woman's Road Crisis at Midwar

Chapter Five: Trying to Find Places the Question of African American Freedom in the Late War

Chapter Six: Woman's Part of Glory Love, Death, and Work in Women's Writing, 1863-1865

Chapter Seven: The Times Which Form History Writing the War, 1865-1868

Chapter Eight: Still Waiting Race and the Politics of Reconstruction

Chapter Nine: A New Emancipation Interpreting the War for Tomorrow

Conclusion

Notes

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