In this 2010 book, Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to
nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and
sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a
diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline
Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary
endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the
writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both
close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an
overarching account of the importance of this form of writing,
suggesting new ways of looking at style as a medium through which
gender can be signified and reshaped. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in
Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our
understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their
contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist
reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights
for scholars of American literature and women's writing.
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