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Book SynopsisReclaiming 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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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 literary publishing marketplace which was (and remains) customarily considered to be a masculine realm. It challenges, moreover, basic tenets of the origins of realism and does so by positing a definable historical transition from the romantic and sentimental to the realist." * Cecelia Tichi, Vanderbilt University *
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1. Defining Female Authorship
Chapter 2. Writing in and out of the Home: Parlor Culture and Authorship
Chapter 3. Authorizing Reception: Maria Cummins and The Lamplighter
Chapter 4. Revising Romance: Louisa May Alcott, Hawthorne, and the Civil War
Chapter 5. Contractual Authorship: Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Abigail Dodge
Chapter 6. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Ethical Authorship
Chapter 7. Epilogue: Amateurs and Professionals in Woolson and James
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
