Gertrude Atherton

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Horn) - ăthˈərtən, 1857–1948, American writer, b. San Francisco. She wrote a series of historical novels about California, which include The Californians (1898), Rezánov (1906), and The Ancestors (1907). Her most popular books are The Conqueror (1902), which is a fictionalized biography of Alexander Hamilton, and the Read More...

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Literature and Insurgency: Ten Studies in Racial Evolution: Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Frank Norris, David Graham Phillips, Stewart Edward White, Winston Churchill, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Atherton, and Robert W. Chambers (Chap. IX "Mrs. Atherton and Ancestry")
by John Curtis Underwood. 480 pgs.

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Preface

Literature and Insurgency

II: Henry James: Expatriate

III: William Dean Howells and Altruria

IV: Frank Norris

V: David Graham Phillips and Results

VI: Stewart Edward White and All Outdoors

VII: Winston Churchill and Civic Righteousness

VIII: Culture and Edith Wharton

IX: Mrs. Atherton and Ancestry

X: Robert W. Chambers and Commercialism
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Rezanov
by Gertrude Atherton. 322 pgs.

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Notice to Purchaser

(facsimile Page of Manuscript from Rulers of Kings)

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English Opinions of Mrs. Atherton's Novels.
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San Francisco in Fiction: Essays in a Regional Literature (Chap. 4 "Gertrude Atherton and Her San Francisco: A Wayward Writer and a Wayward City in a Wayward Paradise")
by David Fine, Paul Skenazy. 243 pgs.

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This important collection of essays on the writers who have made Los Angeles one of the great cities of twentieth-century literature has been strengthened by the inclusion of three new essays. John Fante, Walter Mosley, and Chester Himes join such writers as Aldous Huxley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Nathanael West, Norman Mailer, James M. Cain, Ross Macdonald, Raymond Chandler, Budd Schulberg, Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne, and Thomas Pynchon as well as less familiar writers such as Oscar Zeta Acosta, Horace McCoy, Thomas Sanchez, Marc Norman, and Hysaye Yamamoto in a text that provides a basic literary history of the region. Essays examine such special Los Angeles genres as the detective story and the Hollywood novel, and a chapter is devoted to the film Chinatown.

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1: Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and the Literary Construction of San Francisco

2: Beyond San Francisco: Frank Norris's Invention of Northern California

3: Jack London's Sonoma Valley: Finding the Way Home

4: Gertrude Atherton and Her San Francisco: A Wayward Writer and a Wayward City In A Wayward Paradise

5: The ""Heart's Field"": Dashiell Hammett's Anonymous Territory

6: William Saroyan and San Francisco: Emergence of a Genius (self-Proclaimed)

7: Jack Kerouac and the Beats In San Francisco

8: Double Wonder: the Novelistic Achievement of James D. Houston

9: Land Lessons in an ""Unhistoried"" West: Wallace Stegner's California

10: Clear-Cutting the Western Myth: Beyond Joan Didion

11: Borders and Bridges, Doors and Drugstores: Toward a Geography of Time

12: The Chinatown Aesthetic and The Architecture of Racial Identity
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American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948)" begins on p. 6)
by Laurie Champion, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 412 pgs.

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Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons, not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945, a period that embraces two major artistic movements, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a review of the author's critical reception, and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume reflects the diversity of American culture through its coverage of African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Chinese American women writers.

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Preface

Introduction

Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881-1954)

Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948)

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)

Djuna Barnes (Lydia Steptoe) (1892-1982)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Louise Bogan (1897-1970)

Marita Odette Bonner (1898-1971)

Kay Boyle (1902-1992)

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert (1894-1991)

Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Anita Scott Coleman (1890-1960)

Rachel Crothers (1878-1958)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)

Alice Maude Ewell (1860-1946)

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)

Edna Ferber (1885-1968)

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958)

Zona Gale (1874-1938)

Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

Susan Keating Glaspell (1876-1948)

Jovita GonzÁLez de Mireles (1904-1983)

Caroline Gordon (1895-1981)

Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

Cleofas M. Jaramillo (1878-1956)

Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson (1877-1966)

Nella Larsen (1891-1964)

Margery Latimer (1899-1932)

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Mina Loy (1882-1966)

Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)

Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962)

Carson Mccullers (1917-1967)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Mourning Dove (Hum-Um-Ishu-Mau) [Christine Quintasket] (1882?-1936)

Josephina Niggli (1910-1983)

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)

Lola Ridge (1873-1941)

Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)

Dorothy Scarborough (1878-1935)

Anne Spencer (1882-1975)

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924)

Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865-1914)

Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948)

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Eudora Alice Welty (1909-)

Dorothy West (1907-1998)

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)

Anzia Yezierska (1883?-1970)

Zitkala-šA (Gertrude Simmons Bonninu) (1876-1938)

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Editor and Contributors
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Golden Gate Country
by Gertrude Atherton. 256 pgs.

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Part One

1. Old California

2. Russia Comes to California (and a Legend of Fort Ross)

3. the Lord of the North

4. the First of the Cattle Kings

Part Two

5. San Francisco is Born

6. the Despoiled

7. Hangtown (and Grass Valley)

8. "The Wickedest City on Earth"

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9. Tossing Horns

10. the Pageant of San Francisco Society

Part Four

11. from the Earthquake Onward

Index
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The Immortal Marriage
by Gertrude Atherton. 472 pgs.

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Book II

Book III

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Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life (Discussion of Gertrude Atherton begins on p. 229)
by Nancy Owen Nelson. 319 pgs.

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Private Voices, Public Lives Women Speak on the Literary Life

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Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

I: The Work/Love Paradigm

"Tangled Together like Badly Cast Fishing Line" the Reader and the Text in Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"

Love, Work, and Willa Cather

The Voices from the Little House

Rewriting the Love Plot Our Way Women and Work

II: The Text as Mirror

Nancy Drew—the Perfect Solution

Wrestling with the Mother and the Father "His" and "Her" in Adrienne Rich

In Search of the Androgynous Self

From Robot to Roarer

A White Bird Flying Straight Down

Being an I-Witness—my Life as a Lesbian Teacher

Mother/Daughter Dialog(ic)s In, Around and About Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club

Offshore Women a Personal Log

Metamorphosis Mutations of a Hungarian Continental Drifter into an American Woman

Trapped—then Released—by a Gift from the Sea

Speaking Across Boundaries and Sharing the Loss of a Child

Trailing West

Dakota: a Spiritual Geography, Revisited

III: Teaching and Writing the Self

Growing Up with Doctor Spock an Auto-Biography

From Impersonators to Persons Breaking Patterns, Finding Voices

Search and Rescue

Diversity and the American Dream

Women's Literature as Individuation for College Students

Finding My Voice Caught Between a Woolf and a Crane

Literary Criticism with a Human Face Virginia Woolf and the Common Reader

Contributor Biographies

Index to Authors, Characters, Subjects
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Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide ("Gertrude Atherton" begins on p. 20)
by Frederick S. Frank, Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller. 516 pgs.

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With its roots in Romanticism, antiquarianism, and the primacy of the imagination, the Gothic genre originated in the 18th century, flourished in the 19th, and continues to thrive today. This reference work provides an introduction to Gothic literature and its abundant criticism and summarizes contemporary developments and critical opinion in Gothic Studies. The volume includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 50 Gothic writers from Horace Walpole to Stephen King. Each entry includes a primary bibliography, a critical essay on the author's place in the Gothic tradition, and a selected, annotated bibliography of scholarship. Entries for Russian, Japanese, French, and German writers give an international scope to the book, while the focus on English and American literature shows the dynamic nature of Gothicism today.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld

William Harrison Ainsworth

Ueda Akinari

Gertrude Atherton

Margaret Atwood

Jane Austen and the Northanger Novelists

Franýois Thomas Marie de Baculard dýArnaud

William Beckford

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte

Charles Brockden Brown

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Wilkie Collins

Charlotte Dacre [Rosa Matilda]

Charles Dickens

Franýois Guillaume Ducray-Duminil

Mary Wilkins Freeman

William Godwin

Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks, and Short Stories in the Magazines

Gothic Drama

Nathaniel Hawthorne

E[rnst] T[heodor] A[madeus] Hoffmann

James Hogg

Washington Irving

Henry James

Stephen King

Izumi Kyoka

D. H. Lawrence

Sophia Lee

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Matthew Gregory ýMonký Lewis

George Lippard

H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft

Arthur Machen

Charles Robert Maturin

Herman Melville

Toni Morrison

Joyce Carol Oates

Flannery OýConnor

Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky

Edgar Allan Poe

John Polidori

Ann Radcliffe

Clara Reeve

Count Donatien Alphonse Franýois Sade

Friedrich von Schiller

Sir Walter Scott

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Charlotte Turner Smith

Robert Louis Stevenson

Bram Stoker

Ludwig Tieck

Horace Walpole

General Bibliography of Critical Sources and Resources

Index of Authors and Titles

Index of Critics, Editors, and Translators

About the Editors and Contributors

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