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Reclaiming authorship : literary women in America, 1850-1900 /

"Reclaiming Authorship augments our knowledge of the female literary tradition and enriches our grasp of the process by which women authors sought public status in a publishing marketplace. It challenges basic tenets of the origins of realism and posits a definable historical transition from th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Susan S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2006.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Definining female authorship
  • Writing in and out of the home : parlor culture and authorship
  • Authorizing reception : Maria Cummins and The lamplighter
  • Revising romance : Louisa May Alcott, Hawthorne, and the Civil War
  • Contractual authorship : Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Abigail Dodge
  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelp's ethical authorship
  • Epilogue : amateurs and professionals in Woolson and James.