Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Susanna Rowson, father of the American novel / Jane Tompkins
  • Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie : radical frontier romance / Carol J. Singley
  • Reinventing Lydia Sigourney / Nina Baym
  • Domesticity and the economics of independence : resistance and revolution in the work of Fanny Fern / Joyce W. Warren
  • Harriet Jacobs's Incidents and the "careless daughters" (and sons) who read it / Frances Smith Foster
  • Only a story, not a romance : Harriet Beecher Stowe's The pearl of Orr's Island / Judith Fetterley
  • Eaconomies of space : markets and marketability in Our nig and Iola Leroy / Karla F.C. Holloway
  • "America" as community in three antebellum village sketches / Sandra A. Zagarell
  • The American renaissance reenvisioned / Joanne Dobson
  • "Doers of the word" : theorizing African-American women writers in the antebellum North / Carla L. Peterson.
  • (cont.) "What methods have brought blessing" : discourses of reform in philanthropic literature / Deborah Carlin
  • Breaking the sentence : local-color literature and subjugated knowledges / Josephine Donovan
  • The tradition of American Jewish women writers / Diane Lichtenstein
  • "But is it any good?" : evaluating nineteenth-century American women's fiction / Susan K. Harris
  • Teaching nineteenth-century women writers / Paul Lauter.