This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authirs have made to the short story.
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Useful for students, teachers, and critics....Recommended for undergraduate and graduate libraries.
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...extremely interesting...uniform high quality...The book should prove to be indispensable to anyone teaching women's literature or the short story as a genre. It belongs in both graduate and undergraduate libraries because it contains the best of the criticism on its limited subject along with useful bibliographies and suggestions for future research. The book is also a useful addition to the professional library of any teacher using an American studies approach....
–Journal of the American Studies Assoc. of Texas
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...extremely interesting...uniform high quality...The book should prove to be indispensable to anyone teaching women's literature or the short story as a genre. It belongs in both graduate and undergraduate libraries because it contains the best of the criticism on its limited subject along with useful bibliographies and suggestions for future research. The book is also a useful addition to the professional library of any teacher using an American studies approach....
–Journal of the American Studies Assoc. of Texas
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Julie brown , (PhD., University of Winsconsin-Milwaukee) is an English professor at Clatsop Community College in Astoia, oregon, where she teaches American literature, creative writing, and composition.
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Fifteen months after retiring from a tumultuous two-year editorship of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, Lydia Maria Child voiced astonishment over the literary success of Letters from New York (1845), a collection of journalistic transcedental essays first printed in the pages of her abolitionist newspaper. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oats for the woman, good womanhood, displaced abjection, short story cycle, abject body, sexual mountain, yellow woman, confidence story, short story genre, lesbian stories, black women writers, short story form, local colorists, short story writing, sob sister, confidence women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, Lost Borders, Native American, Louisa May Alcott, Juan Maria, Fannie Hurst, Dorothy Parker, New England, Whispering Leaves, Eudora Welty, Alice Walker, Atlantic Monthly, Martha Wolfenstein, The Last of the Menu Girls, The Prescription, United States, Cliff Dweller, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Harlem Renaissance, Florence Nightingale, Joyce Carol Oates, Miss Egert, New Brunswick, New Mexico New!
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Fifteen months after retiring from a tumultuous two-year editorship of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, Lydia Maria Child voiced astonishment over the literary success of Letters from New York (1845), a collection of journalistic transcedental essays first printed in the pages of her abolitionist newspaper. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oats for the woman, good womanhood, displaced abjection, short story cycle, abject body, sexual mountain, yellow woman, confidence story, short story genre, lesbian stories, black women writers, short story form, local colorists, short story writing, sob sister, confidence women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, Lost Borders, Native American, Louisa May Alcott, Juan Maria, Fannie Hurst, Dorothy Parker, New England, Whispering Leaves, Eudora Welty, Alice Walker, Atlantic Monthly, Martha Wolfenstein, The Last of the Menu Girls, The Prescription, United States, Cliff Dweller, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Harlem Renaissance, Florence Nightingale, Joyce Carol Oates, Miss Egert, New Brunswick, New Mexico New!
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- 'Yellow Woman': Leslie Marmon Silko (Rutgers Films in Print) by Melody Graulich on 8 pages
- To Hell with Dying by Alice Walker on 7 pages
- Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers Of Louisa May Alcott by Louisa May Alcott on 6 pages
- Little Women. Louisa M. Alcott (Puffin Classics) by Louisa May Alcott on 4 pages
- Ten D.H. Lawrence Short Stories (Longman Literature) by D H Lawrence on 4 pages
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- Ethnicity and the American Short Story (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Julie Brown in Front Matter, and page 83
- The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by Martin Scofield in Back Matter
- Canon Vs. Culture: Reflections on the Current Debate (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Jan Groak in Front Matter
- On the Winds and Waves of Imagination: Transnational Feminism and Literature (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Constance S. Richards in Front Matter
- Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America by Alison Piepmeier in Back Matter
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