Table Of ContentPreface.Acknowledgements.Introduction: A Conversation on Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Karen Kilcup."Not in the Least American": Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism as UnAmerican Literature: Judith Fetterley (University at Albany, SUNY).Living With Difference: Nineteenth-Century Southern Women Writers: Nancy A. Walker (Vanderbilt University).Western Biodiversity: Rereading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Melody Graulich (University of New Hampshire)."A Tolerance For Contradictions":The Short Stories of Maria Cristina Mena: Tiffany Ana Lcent;pez (University of California, Riverside).Early Native American Women Authors: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, E. Pauline Johnson, and Zitkala-a: A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff (University of Illinois, Chicago).Nature, Nurture, and Nationalism: "A Faded Leaf of History": Jean Pfaelzer (University of Delaware).Crippled Girls and Lame Old Women: Sentimental Spectacles of Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Rosemarie Garland Thomson (Howard University).Fracturing Gender: Women's Economic Independence: Joyce Warren (Queens College, CUNY)."To Labor. . . And Fight on the Side of God":Spirit, Class, and Nineteenth-Century African-American Women's Literature: Barbara McCaskill (University of Georgia)."Essays of Invention":Transformations of Advice in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing: Karen L. Kilcup (University of North Carolina, Greensboro).Inventing a Feminist Discourse: Rhetoric and Resistance in Margaret Fuller's Women In The Nineteenth Century: Annette Kolodny (University of Arizonia).Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets Revisited: Cheryl Walker (Scripps College).Contributors.Index.
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