LEADER 04382nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910817195903321 005 20240418031327.0 010 $a0-8122-0389-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203899 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418292 035 $a(OCoLC)859161057 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748598 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000981312 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11632753 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981312 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10971555 035 $a(PQKB)10697319 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29226 035 $a(DE-B1597)449736 035 $a(OCoLC)1013957181 035 $a(OCoLC)979753838 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203899 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442172 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748598 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682560 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442172 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418292 100 $a20051219d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReclaiming authorship $eliterary women in America, 1850-1900 /$fSusan S. Williams 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51278-7 311 0 $a0-8122-3942-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-243) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. Defining Female Authorship --$t2. Writing in and out of the Home: Parlor Culture and Authorship --$t3. Authorizing Reception: Maria Cummins and The Lamplighter --$t4. Revising Romance: Louisa May Alcott, Hawthorne, and the Civil War --$t5. Contractual Authorship: Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Abigail Dodge --$t6. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Ethical Authorship --$t7. Epilogue: Amateurs and Professionals in Woolson and James --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aThere was, in the nineteenth century, a distinction made between "writers" and "authors," Susan S. Williams notes, the former defined as those who composed primarily from mere experience or observation rather than from the unique genius or imagination of the latter. If women were more often cast as writers than authors by the literary establishment, there also emerged in magazines, advice books, fictional accounts, and letters a specific model of female authorship, one that valorized "natural" feminine traits such as observation and emphasis on detail, while also representing the distance between amateur writing and professional authorship. Attending to biographical and cultural contexts and offering fresh readings of literary works, Reclaiming Authorship focuses on the complex ways writers such as Maria S. Cummins, Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Abigail Dodge, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Constance Fenimore Woolson put this model of female authorship into practice. Williams shows how it sometimes intersected with prevailing notions of male authorship and sometimes diverged from them, and how it is often precisely those moments of divergence when authorship was reclaimed by women. The current trend to examine "women writers" rather than "authors" marks a full rotation of the circle, and "writers" can indeed be the more capacious term, embracing producers of everything from letters and diaries to published books. Yet certain nineteenth-century women made particular efforts to claim the title "author," Williams demonstrates, and we miss something of significance by ignoring their efforts. 606 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAuthorship 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAuthorship. 676 $a810.9/928709034 700 $aWilliams$b Susan S$0309175 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817195903321 996 $aReclaiming authorship$93970086 997 $aUNINA