Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 185-19

Susan S. Williams

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2006

Reclaiming Authorship

Literary Women in America, 185-19

Susan S. Williams

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203899

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"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 the romantic to the realist."—Cecelia Tichi

Author / Editor information

Susan S. Williams is Professor of English at The Ohio State University and author of Confounding Images: Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum American Fiction, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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"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 literary publishing marketplace which was (and remains) customarily considered to be a masculine realm. It challenges, moreover, basic tenets of the origins of realism and does so by positing a definable historical transition from the romantic and sentimental to the realist."—Cecelia Tichi, Vanderbilt University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Defining Female Authorship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Writing in and out of the Home: Parlor Culture and Authorship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3. Authorizing Reception: Maria Cummins and The Lamplighter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
4. Revising Romance: Louisa May Alcott, Hawthorne, and the Civil War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
5. Contractual Authorship: Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Abigail Dodge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
6. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Ethical Authorship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
7. Epilogue: Amateurs and Professionals in Woolson and James Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Other: 17 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: June 15, 2013
ISBN: 9780812203899