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Author:

Bauer, Dale M., 1956- author.

Title:

Nineteenth-century American women's serial novels / Dale M. Bauer.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xviii, 172 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women novelists, American--19th century--History and criticism.
Women novelists--19th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
Women in literature--History--19th century.
Women--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
Serialized fiction--United States--History and criticism.
Literature publishing--United States--History--19th century.
American fiction.
Literature publishing.
Serialized fiction.
Women and literature.
Women in literature.
Women novelists.
Women novelists, American.
Women--Social conditions.
United States.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- 1. Why Read More Southworth -- 2. Stephens and the Serial Novel -- 3. Women in Nineteenth-Century Prisons -- 4. Mary Jane Holmes's "Spooneys," "Crackers," and "White Niggers" -- 5. Laura Jean Libbey and Sexual Transformation -- 6. Racial Intimacy and Serial Novels -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels explores the prolific careers of four exemplary novelists-E.D.E.N. Southworth, Ann Stephens, Mary Jane Holmes, and Laura Jean Libbey. These commercially successful writers helped to shape the popular tradition of serial magazine fiction by drawing on readers' tastes along with their cultural concerns. Their astonishing productivity led magazine editors and publishers to return to them repeatedly for more serials to be turned into even more novels, even as they reprinted these fictions under new titles. Dale Bauer analyzes how serials deployed the repetition of plots and the traumas representing the sources of women's anxieties and pain. Arguing that these novels provided temporary resolutions to the social, economic, and psychological tensions that readers faced, Bauer explains how this otherwise forgotten archive of fiction now offers an extraordinarily expanded range of women's literary effort from the nineteenth to the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Cambridge studies in american literature and culture

ISBN:

1108707939
9781108707930
1108486541
9781108486545

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1122692348

LCCN:

2019040435

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)