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Karen L. Kilcup (Editor)
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology is a multicultural, multigenre collection celebrating the quality and diversity of nineteenth century American women’s expression.
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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology is a multicultural, multigenre collection celebrating the quality and diversity of nineteenth century American women’s expression. Complete texts, many never reprinted or anthologized, come from a wide range of both traditional and rediscovered genres, including: advice and manners, travel writing, myth, children’s writing, sketch, utopia, journalism, humor, poetry, oral narrative, sampler verse, short fiction, thriller and detective, spiritual autobiography, letter, and diary.
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers reflects the latest scholarship on both tradition al and unfamiliar writing and provides an unequaled view of the breadth of American women’s work. Among the man y writers represented are: Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Rebecca Cox Jackson, Lydia Maria Child, the Lowell Offerin writers, Margaret Fullr, Fanny Fern, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances E. W. Harper, Emily Dickisnon, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, harriet Prescott Spofford, Sarah M. B. Piatt, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Mary Hallock Foote, Sara Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Anne Julia Cooper, Charlotte Perkins Gilnman, E. Pauline Johnson, Ida Wells-Barnett, Martha Wolfenstein, and Onoto Watanna.
Author Biography
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).
Number of Pages: 656Dimensions: 1.4 x 9.01 x 6.01 INPublication Date: February 18, 1997
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