Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction: A Conversation on Nineteenth-Century American
Women's Writing: Karen Kilcup.

"Not in the Least American": Nineteenth-Century Literary
Regionalism as UnAmerican Literature: Judith Fetterley (University
at Albany, SUNY).

Living With Difference: Nineteenth-Century Southern Women
Writers: Nancy A. Walker (Vanderbilt University).

Western Biodiversity: Rereading Nineteenth-Century American
Women's Writing: Melody Graulich (University of New Hampshire).

"A Tolerance For Contradictions":The Short Stories of
Maria Cristina Mena: Tiffany Ana L¢pez (University of
California, Riverside).

Early Native American Women Authors: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft,
Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, E. Pauline Johnson, and
Zitkala-a: A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff (University of Illinois,
Chicago).

Nature, Nurture, and Nationalism: "A Faded Leaf of
History": Jean Pfaelzer (University of Delaware).

Crippled Girls and Lame Old Women: Sentimental Spectacles of
Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Rosemarie
Garland Thomson (Howard University).

Fracturing Gender: Women's Economic Independence: Joyce Warren
(Queens College, CUNY).

"To Labor. . . And Fight on the Side of God":Spirit,
Class, and Nineteenth-Century African-American Women's Literature:
Barbara McCaskill (University of Georgia).

"Essays of Invention":Transformations of Advice in
Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Karen L. Kilcup
(University of North Carolina, Greensboro).

Inventing a Feminist Discourse: Rhetoric and Resistance in
Margaret Fuller's Women In The Nineteenth Century: Annette Kolodny
(University of Arizonia).

Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets Revisited: Cheryl Walker
(Scripps College).

Contributors.

Index.

"Suitable for both scholars and students, offering a broad overview of the field as well as attention to detail. Throws open questions for debate." Paratexte (trans.)

Karen L. Kilcup is Professor of American literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The recipient of a US national Distinguished Teacher award in 1987, Professor Kilcup has been named the Davidson Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities at Florida International University for Fall 2000. She is the author or editor of six books on American literature and culture, including Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition (1999), Robert Frost and Feminine Literary Tradition (1998), and Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology (1997).

K. L. Kilcup, University of North Carolina at Greensboro