The Cambridge history of American women's literature
(eBook)

Machine generated contents note: Introduction Dale M. Bauer; 1. The stories we tell: American Indian women's writing and the persistence of tradition - Jodi A. Byrd; 2. Women writers and war - Jonathan Vincent; 3. American women's writing in the Colonial period - Kirstin R. Wilcox; 4. Religion, sensibility, and sympathy - Sandra M. Gustafson; 5. Women's writing of the Revolutionary era - Jennifer J. Baker; 6. Women writers and the early US novel - Andy Doolen; 7. Women in literary culture during the long nineteenth century Nancy Glazener; 8. Moral authority as literary property in mid-century print culture -Susan M. Ryan; 9. The shape of Catharine Sedgwick's career - Melissa J. Homestead; 10. Writing, authorship and genius: literary women and modes of literary production - Susan S. Williams; 11. Nineteenth-century American women's poetry: past and prospects - Elizabeth Renker; 12. Transatlantic sympathies and nineteenth-century women's writing - Susan David Bernstein; 13. Nineteenth-century African American women writers - John Ernest; 14. Local knowledge and women's regional writing -Stephanie Foote; 15. Women and children first: female writers of American children's literature - Carol Singley; 16. US suffrage literature - Mary Chapman; 17. American women playwrights - Brenda Murphy; 18. Turn-of-the-twentieth-century transitions: women on the edge of tomorrow - Stephanie Smith; 19. Accidents, agency, and Americn literary naturalism - Jennifer Travis; 20. The geography of ladyhood: racializing the novel of manners - Cherene Sherrard-Johnson; 21. Self-made women: novelists of the 1920s - Jean M. Lutes; 22. Recovering the legacy of Zara Wright and the twentieth-century black woman writer - Rynetta Davis; 23. Jewish American women writers - Hana Wirth-Nesher; 24. Women on the breadlines - John Marsh; 25. Modern domestic realism in America, 1950-1970 - Gordon Hutner; 26. Lyric, gender and subjectivity in modern and contemporary women's poetry - Jennifer Ashton; 27. Contemporary American women's writing: women and violence - Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson; 28. Asian-American women's literature and the promise of committed art - Leslie Bow; 29. Straight sex, queer text: American women novelists - Lynda Zwinger; 30. Latina writers and the usable past - Kimberly O'Neill; 31. Where is she? Women/access/rhetoric - Patricia Bizzell; 32. Reading women in America -Susan M. Griffin; Index.