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Title:

Redefining the political novel : American women writers, 1797-1901 / edited by Sharon M. Harris.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Tennessee Press,

Copyright Date:

c1995

Description:

xxiii, 200 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Feminism and literature--United States--History--19th century.
Political fiction, American--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--United States--History--19th century.
Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Harris, Sharon M.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-191) and index.

Contents:

(cont) A world of their own: the separatist utopian vision of Mary E. Bradley Lane's Mizora / Duangrudi Suksang -- "A Goddess Behind a Sordid Veil": the domestic heroine meets the labor novel in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's The Portion of Labor / Dorothy Berkson -- "Race" and identity in Pauline Hopkins's Hagar's Daughter / Claire Pamplin.
Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette: critiquing Franklin's America / Sharon M. Harris -- Susanna Rowson's Reuben and Rachel: captivity, colonization, and the domestication of Columbus / Christopher Castiglia -- Expanding "America": Lydia Sigourney's Sketch of Connecticut, Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie / Sandra A. Zagarell -- Reinventing Lydia Sigourney / Nina Baym -- The politics of survival: Sara Parton's Ruth Hall and the literature of labor / Kristie Hamilton -- "So Like Women!": Louisa May Alcott's Work and the ideology of relations / Mary Rigsby.

ISBN:

9780870498695 (cl : alk. paper)
087049869X (cl : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)30701088

LCCN:

94028331

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)