TheCambridgeCompaniontoNineteenth-Century AmericanWomen’sWriting TheCambridgeCompaniontoNineteenth-CenturyAmericanWomen’sWrit- ingisaspeciallycommissionedcollectiondesignedforusebystudents.Provid- inganoverviewofthehistoryofwritingbywomenintheperiod,itestablishes thecontextinwhichthiswritingemerged,andtracestheoriginoftheterms whichhavetraditionallydefinedthedebate.Itincludeschaptersontopicsof recent concern, such as women and war, erotic violence, the liberating and disciplinary effects of religion, and examines the work a variety of women writers,includingHarrietBeecherStowe,RebeccaHardingDavis,andLouisa MayAlcott.ThevolumeplotsnewdirectionsforthestudyofAmericanliterary history,andprovidesseveralvaluabletoolsforstudents,includingachronology ofworksandsuggestionsforfurtherreading. 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BAUER AND PHILIP GOULD PUBLISHEDBYTHEPRESSSYNDICATEOFTHEUNIVERSITYOFCAMBRIDGE ThePittBuilding,TrumpingtonStreet,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb22ru,UK 40West20thStreet,NewYork,NY10011-4211,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia RuizdeAlarco´n13,28014Madrid,Spain DockHouse,TheWaterfront,CapeTown8001,SouthAfrica http://www.cambridge.org (cid:1)C CambridgeUniversityPress2001 Thisbookisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2001 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge TypefaceSabon10/13pt. SystemLATEX2ε [TB] AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationData TheCambridgecompaniontonineteenth-centuryAmericanwomen’swriting/editedby DaleM.BauerandPhilipGould. p. cm.–(Cambridgecompanionstoliterature) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn0521660033(hardback)–isbn0521669758(paperback) 1.Americanliterature–Womenauthors–Historyandcriticism. 2.Womenand literature–UnitedStates–History–nineteenthcentury. 3.Americanliterature–nineteenth century–Historyandcriticism. i.Bauer,DaleM.,1956– ii.Gould,Philip,1960– iii.Series. ps147.c36 2001 810.9(cid:2)9287(cid:2)09034–dc21 2001025736 isbn0521660033hardback isbn0521669758paperback CONTENTS Listofillustrations pagexi Notesoncontributors xiii Acknowledgments xvi Chronologyofworksandevents1773–1925 xvii Introduction 1 dale m. bauer and philip gould Part1: Historicalandtheoreticalbackground 1 ThepostcolonialcultureofearlyAmericanwomen’swriting 19 rosemarie zagarri 2 Womeninpublic 38 dana d. nelson 3 Antebellumpoliticsandwomen’swriting 69 stephanie a. smith Part 2: Genre,tradition,andinnovation 4 Captivityandtheliteraryimagination 105 kathryn zabelle derounian-stodola 5 Nineteenth-centuryAmericanwomen’spoetry 122 elizabeth petrino 6 Womenatwar 143 shirley samuels ix
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