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Title Separate spheres no more : gender convergence in American literature, 1830-1930 / edited by Monika M. Elbert
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000

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Contents Introduction / Monika M. Elbert -- Intertextuality and Authorial Interconnectedness -- To Be a "Parlor Soldier": Susan Warner's Answer to Emerson's "Self-Reliance" / Lucinda L. Damon-Bach -- "Astra Castra": Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Harriet Prescott Spofford / Katharine Rodier -- The War of Susie King Taylor / Karen S. Nulton -- No Separations in the City: The Public-Private Novel and Private-Public Authorship / Karen E. Waldron -- Body Politics: Framing the Female Body -- The Ungendered Terrain of Good Health: Mary Gove Nichols's Rewriting of the Diseased Institution of Marriage / Dawn Keetley -- Male Doctors and Female Illness in American Women's Fiction, 1850-1900 / Frederick Newberry -- Gender Bending: Two Role-Reversal Utopias by Nineteenth-Century Women / Darby Lewes -- On the Home Front and Beyond: Domesticity and the Marketplace -- A Homely Business: Melusina Fay Peirce and Late-Nineteenth-Century Cooperative Housekeeping / Lisette Nadine Gibson -- Narratives of Domestic Imperialism: The African-American Home in the Colored American Magazine and the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, 1900-1903 / Debra Bernardi -- Public Women, Private Acts: Gender and Theater in Turn-of-the-Century American Novels / Jennifer Costello Brezina -- Sentimental Subversions -- Gender Valences of Transcendentalism: The Pursuit of Idealism in Elizabeth Oakes-Smith's "The Sinless Child" / Mary Louise Kete -- Sentimental Epistemologies in Uncle Tom's Cabin and The House of the Seven Gables / Marianne Noble
Summary Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been ""ghettoized"" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of classroom teaching. While some of the essays pair up female and male authors who write in a similar style or with similar concerns, others address social issues shared by both men and women, including class tensions, economic problems, and the Ci
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Gender identity in literature.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Sex role in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Sex role in literature.
American literature
Gender identity in literature
Literature and society
Sex role in literature
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Electronic book
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Elbert, Monika M. (Monika Maria), 1956-
ISBN 0585379203
9780585379203
0817387595
9780817387594