Conflicting Stories : American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century.

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Breaking Silence: lola Leroy -- 3. Writing Silence: "The Yellow Wallpaper -- 4. Finding Form: Narrative Geography and The Country of the Pointed Firs -- 5. The Limits of Freedom: The Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Kate Chopin, and Pauline Hopkins -- 6. Form and Difference: Gertrude Stein and Mary Austin -- 7. Audacious Words: Sui Sin Far's Mrs. Spring Fragrance -- 8. Art: Willa Cather, the Woman Writer as Artist, and Humishuma -- 9. Plots: Jessie Fauset and Edith Wharton -- 10. Slow Starvation: Hunger and Hatred in Anzia Yezierska, Ellen Glasgow, and Edith Summers Kelley -- 11. Jumping Out the Window: Nella Larsen's Passing and the End of an Era -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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