Responding to the rich generic and thematic diversity of the
writing represented in "Nineteenth-century American Women Writers:
An Anthology", also edited by Karen L. Kilcup, this critical
reader, specifically designed to accompany the anthology, contains
twelve original essays - ten newly-written - on a wide range of
topics, together with an introductory overview by the editor. The
volume explores for students and scholars the interwoven matters of
history, canonicity, and criticism, highlighting the collective
importance of nineteenth-century women's writing, and illuminating
in particular the complex hybrid texts and shorter genres that many
women produced. The essays address large conceptual issues and
offer suggestive close readings of individual texts. They ask such
questions as: How do these texts use and 'misuse' the conventions
of their time to create new perspectives, forms, and voices? What
are the connections between various kinds of texts, writers, and
genres? How do issues of identity and location inform the writing
and our interpretations of it? What aesthetic, cultural, and
political issues do these writers raise, both in their content and
in their formal experiments? The topics covered in this book
include: literary nationalism and regionalism; Southern and western
women writers; tradition and transformation in Native American and
Mexican American women authors; race, reform, and sentimentality;
disability, sentimentality and femininity; women's economic
independence; spirituality and class in African-American women's
literature; gender, genre, and feminist discourse; and, women poets
and the cannon. The contributors to this book include: Judith
Fetterley; Nancy A. Walker; Melody Graulich; Tiffany Ana Lopez; A.
LaVonne Brown Ruoff; Jean Pfaelzer; Rosemarie Garland Thomson;
Joyce Warren; Barbara McCaskill; Karen L. Kilcup; Annette Kolodny;
and, Cheryl Walker.
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