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Book SynopsisAs women writers and writers of colour are being rediscovered and acclaimed, the question of whether they are worthy of inclusion remains open. The (Other) American Traditions brings together for the first time in one place, essays on individual writers and traditions that begin to ask the harder questions.
Table of ContentsSusanna Rowson, father of the American novel / Jane Tompkins
Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie : radical frontier romance / Carol J. Singley
Reinventing Lydia Sigourney / Nina Baym
Domesticity and the economics of independence : resistance and revolution in the work of Fanny Fern / Joyce W. Warren
Harriet Jacobs's Incidents and the "careless daughters" (and sons) who read it / Frances Smith Foster
Only a story, not a romance : Harriet Beecher Stowe's The pearl of Orr's Island / Judith Fetterley
Eaconomies of space : markets and marketability in Our nig and Iola Leroy / Karla F.C. Holloway
"America" as community in three antebellum village sketches / Sandra A. Zagarell
The American renaissance reenvisioned / Joanne Dobson
"Doers of the word" : theorizing African-American women writers in the antebellum North / Carla L. Peterson. (cont.) "What methods have brought blessing" : discourses of reform in philanthropic literature / Deborah Carlin
Breaking the sentence : local-color literature and subjugated knowledges / Josephine Donovan
The tradition of American Jewish women writers / Diane Lichtenstein
"But is it any good?" : evaluating nineteenth-century American women's fiction / Susan K. Harris
Teaching nineteenth-century women writers / Paul Lauter
