This critical reader, specifically designed to accompany the anthology, contains twelve original essays - ten newly-written - on a wide range of topics, together with an introductory overview by the editor.Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: A Conversation on Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Karen Kilcup.
Not in the Least American : Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism as UnAmerican Literature: Judith Fetterley (University at Albany, SUNY).
Living With Difference: Nineteenth-Century Southern Women Writers: Nancy A. Walker (Vanderbilt University).
Western Biodiversity: Rereading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Melody Graulich (University of New Hampshire).
A Tolerance For Contradictions :The Short Stories of Maria Cristina Mena: Tiffany Ana L¢pez (University of California, Riverside).
Early Native American Women Authors: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, E. Pauline Johnson, and Zitkala-a: A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff (University of Illinois, Chicago).
Nature, Nurture, and Nationalism: A Faded Leaf of History : Jean Pfaelzer (University of Delaware).
Crippled Girls and Lame Old Women: Sentimental Spectacles of Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Rosemarie Garland Thomson (Howard University).
Fracturing Gender: Women's Economic Independence: Joyce Warren (Queens College, CUNY).
To Labor. . . And Fight on the Side of God :Spirit, Class, and Nineteenth-Century African-American Women's Literature: Barbara McCaskill (University of Georgia).
Essays of Invention :Transformations of Advice in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Karen L. Kilcup (University of North Caroll#R
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