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Reclaiming Authorship : Literary Women in America, 185-19.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812203899
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reclaiming AuthorshipDDC classification:
  • 810.9928709034
LOC classification:
  • PS217.W64 -- W55 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Defining Female Authorship -- 2. Writing in and out of the Home: Parlor Culture and Authorship -- 3. Authorizing Reception: Maria Cummins and the Lamplighter -- 4. Revising Romance: Louisa may Alcott, Hawthorne, and the Civil War -- 5. Contractual Authorship: Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Abigail Dodge -- 6. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Ethical Authorship -- 7. Epilogue: Amateurs and Professionals in Woolson and James -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: "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.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Defining Female Authorship -- 2. Writing in and out of the Home: Parlor Culture and Authorship -- 3. Authorizing Reception: Maria Cummins and the Lamplighter -- 4. Revising Romance: Louisa may Alcott, Hawthorne, and the Civil War -- 5. Contractual Authorship: Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Abigail Dodge -- 6. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Ethical Authorship -- 7. Epilogue: Amateurs and Professionals in Woolson and James -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

"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.

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