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Additional authors

1. Cairns Collection of American Women Writers WU

Description

1. xlii, 327 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. "This reissue of the pioneering and standard book on antebellum women's domestic novels contains a new introduction situating the book in the context of important recent developments in the study of women's writing. Nina Baym considers 130 novels by 48 women, focusing on works by a dozen especially productive and successful writers.

Subject

1. 1800-1899
2. American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
3. Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century
4. American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
5. Women in literature

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History

Contents

1. Catharine Sedgwick and other early novelists -- Maria McIntosh -- E.D.E.N. Southworth and Caroline Lee Hentz -- Susan Warner, Anna Warner, and Maria Cummins -- Ann Stephens, Mary Jane Holmes, and Marion Harland -- Caroline Chesebro' -- Other novelists of the fifties -- Augusta Evans and the waning of woman's fiction -- A note on popularity.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. "An Illini Book from the University of Illinois Press"--Cover.
2. Originally published: Ithica, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1978

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-321) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain