Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century: Progressive Pioneers (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)

Synopsis

Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Verena Laschinger and Sirpa Salenius, is a collection of essays that offer a fresh perspective and original analyses of texts by American women writers of the long nineteenth century. The essays, which are written both by European and American scholars, discuss fiction by marginalized authors including Yolanda DuBois (African American fairy tales), Laura E. Richards (children’s literature), Metta Fuller Victor (dime novels/ detective fiction), and other pioneering writers of science fiction, gothic tales, and life narratives. The works covered by this collection represent the rough and ragged realities that women and girls in the nineteenth century experienced; the writings focus on their education, family life, on girls as victims of class prejudice as well as sexual and racial violence, but they also portray girls and women as empowering agents, survivors, and leaders. They do so with a high-voltage creative charge. As progressive pioneers, who forayed into unknown literary terrain and experimented with a variety of genres, the neglected American women writers introduced in this collection themselves emerge as role models whose innovative contribution to nineteenth-century literature the essays celebrate.

Copyright:

2019

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

210 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780429510502

Related ISBNs:

9780429201837, 9780367193492, 9780367193492, 9780367193492, 9781032093253, 9780429201837

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/27/20

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Language Arts

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Verena Laschinger

Edited by:

Sirpa Salenius