Reclaiming Authorship : Literary Women in America, 185-19 /

"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
Main Author: Williams, Susan S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women and literature.
Authorship.
American literature > Women authors.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
authorship.
Art d'ecrire.
Femmes et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Authorship
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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.

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