The Cambridge companion to nineteenth-century American women's writing / / edited by Dale M. Bauer and Philip Gould [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNISA996216691003316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001
• ISBN: 1-139-81610-1; 1-139-00019-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxix, 336 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge companions to literature
• Disciplina: 810.9/9287/09034
• Soggetti: American literature - Women authors - History and criticism; American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
• Nota di contenuto: The postcolonial culture of early American women's writing / Rosemarie Zagarri -- Women in public / Dana D. Nelson -- Antebellum politics and women's writing / Stephanie A. Smith -- Captivity and the literary imagination / Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola -- Nineteenth-century American women's poetry / Elizabeth Petrino -- Women at war / Shirley Samuels -- Women, anti-catholicism, and narrative in nineteenth-century America / Susan Griffin -- Immigration and assimilation in nineteenth-century US women's writing / Priscilla Wald -- The uses of writing in Margaret Bayard Smith's new nation / Fredrika J. Teute -- The sentimental novel : the example of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Gail K. Smith -- African-American women's spiritual narratives / Yolanda Pierce -- The postbellum reform writings of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps / Lisa A. Long -- "Strenuous artistry" : Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons / Sandra A. Zagarell -- Minnie's Sacrifice : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's narrative of citizenship / Farah Jasmine Griffin.
• Sommario/riassunto: Providing an overview of the history of writing by women in the period, this 2001 Companion establishes the context in which this writing emerged, and traces the origin of the terms which have traditionally ; defined the debate. It includes essays on topics of recent concern, such as women and war, erotic violence, the liberating and disciplinary effects of religion, and examines the work of a variety of women writers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis and Louisa May Alcott. The volume plots new directions for the study of American literary history, and provides several valuable tools for students, including a chronology of works and suggestions for further reading.