LEADER 03571oam 22005414a 450 001 9910524666103321 005 20210915044437.0 010 $a0-8018-9401-8 035 $a(CKB)4960000000012615 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4531057 035 $a(OCoLC)1046615898 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse69546 035 $a(BIP)27069750 035 $a(BIP)8858946 035 $a(EXLCZ)994960000000012615 100 $a20030902d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWriting for Immortality$eWomen and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America /$fAnne E. Boyd 210 1$aBaltimore :$cJohns Hopkins University Press,$d2004. 210 4$dİ2004. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 305 pages) 300 $aOriginally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Purdue University. 311 08$a0-8018-7875-6 311 08$a1-4214-0177-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [287]-294) and index. 330 $aBefore the Civil War, American writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Harriet Beecher Stowe had established authorship as a respectable profession for women. But though they had written some of the most popular and influential novels of the century, they accepted the taboo against female writers, regarding themselves as educators and businesswomen. During and after the Civil War, some women writers began to challenge this view, seeing themselves as artists writing for themselves and for posterity. Writing for Immortality studies the lives and works of four prominent members of the first generation of American women who strived for recognition as serious literary artists: Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Constance Fenimore Woolson. Combining literary criticism and cultural history, Anne E. Boyd examines how these authors negotiated the masculine connotation of "artist," imagining a space for themselves in the literary pantheon. Redrawing the boundaries between male and female literary spheres, and between American and British literary traditions, Boyd shows how these writers rejected the didacticism of the previous generation of women writers and instead drew their inspiration from the most prominent "literary" writers of their day: Emerson, James, Barrett Browning, and Eliot. Placing the works and experiences of Alcott, Phelps, Stoddard, and Woolson within contemporary discussions about "genius" and the "American artist," Boyd reaches a sobering conclusion. Although these women were encouraged by the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts, they were equally discouraged by lingering prejudices about their applicability to women. 606 $aCanon (Literature) 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y1865-1918 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCanon (Literature) 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.9/9287/09034 700 $aBoyd$b Anne E.$f1969-$01146097 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524666103321 996 $aWriting for Immortality$92686726 997 $aUNINA