E.D.E.N. Southworth : Recovering a Nineteenth-Century Popular Novelist
Melissa Homestead;Pamela Washington;Melissa Homestead;Pamela Washington
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The prolific nineteenth-century writer E. D. E. N. Southworth enjoyed enormous public ...
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E.D.E.N. Southworth : Recovering a Nineteenth-Century Popular Novelist
2012
The prolific nineteenth-century writer E. D. E. N. Southworth enjoyed enormous public success in her day—she published nearly fifty novels during her career—but that very popularity, combined with her gender, led to her almost complete neglect by the critical establishment before the emergence of academic feminism. Even now, most scholarship on Southworth focuses on her most famous novel, The Hidden Hand . However, this new book—the first since the 1930s devoted entirely to Southworth —shows the depth of her career beyond that publication and reassesses her place in American literature. Editors Melissa Homestead and Pamela Washington have gathered twelve original essays from both established and emerging scholars that set a new agenda for the study of E. D. E. N. Southworth's works. Following an introduction by the editors, these articles are divided into four thematic clusters. The first, “Serial Southworth ,” treats her fiction in periodical publication contexts. “Southworth's Genres,” the second grouping, considers her use of a range of genres beyond the sentimental novel and the domestic novel. In the third part , “Intertextual Southworth ,” the essays present intensive case studies of Southworth's engagement with literary traditions such as Greek and Restoration drama and with her contemporaries such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and French novelist George Sand. Southworth's focus on social issues and reform figures prominently throughout the volume, but the pieces in the fourth section, “Southworth , Marriage, and the Law,” present a sustained inquiry into the ways in which marriage law and the status of women in the nineteenth century engaged her literary imagination. The collection concludes with the first chronological bibliography of Southworth's fiction organized by serialization date rather than book publication. For the first time, scholars will be able to trace the publication history of each novel and will be able to access citations for lesser-known and previously unknown works. With its fresh approach, this volume will be of great value to students and scholars of American literature, women's studies, and popular culture studies. MELISSA J. HOMESTEAD is the Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her book American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869 includes Southworth , and her articles on American women's writing have been published in a variety of academic journals. PAMELA T. WASHINGTON is Professor of English and former dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Oklahoma. She is the co-author of Fresh Takes: Explorations in Reading and Writing: A Freshman Composition Text.
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Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte--1819-18 - Women and literature--United States--History - - Social values in literature - Literature and society--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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Historical Dictionary of American Theater : Beginnings
James Fisher;James Fisher
Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of theater as...
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Historical Dictionary of American Theater : Beginnings
2015
Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1538 to 1880. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in American during the colonial era and the first century of the United States of America, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such figures as Lewis Hallam, David Douglass, Mercy Otis Warren, Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Ida Aldridge, Dion Boucicault, Edwin Booth, and many others. The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of early American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the early American Theater.
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Theater--United States--History--Dictionaries - American drama--DictionariesContent provider:
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English : Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870
J. Gerald Kennedy;Leland S. Person;J. Gerald Kennedy;Leland S. Person
The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehe...
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English : Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870
2014; Vol. volume five
The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the'literary'novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies. In thirty-four essays, this volume reconstructs the emergence and early cultivation of the novel in the United States. Contributors discuss precursors to the U.S. novel that appeared as colonial histories, autobiographies, diaries, and narratives of Indian captivity, religious conversion, and slavery, while paying attention to the entangled literary relations that gave way to a distinctly American cultural identity. The Puritan past, more than two centuries of Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the exploration of the West all inspired fictions of American struggle and self-discovery. A fragmented national publishing landscape comprised of small, local presses often disseminating odd, experimental forms eventually gave rise to major houses in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia and a consequently robust culture of letters.'Dime novels', literary magazines, innovative print technology, and even favorable postal rates contributed to the burgeoning domestic book trade in place by the time of the Missouri Compromise. Contributors weigh novelists of this period alongside their most enduring fictional works to reveal how even the most'American'of novels sometimes confronted the inhuman practices upon which the promise of the new republic had been made to depend. Similarly, the volume also looks at efforts made to extend American interests into the wider world beyond the nation's borders, and it thoroughly documents the emergence of novels projecting those imperial aspirations.
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Social conflict in literature - American literature--European influences - National characteristics, American, in literature - American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - American fiction--19th century--History and criticism - American fiction--18th century--History and criticism - Literature and society--United States--History--19th century - Literature and society--United States--History--18th centuryContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen;Snodgrass, Mary Ellen
Presents articles on feminist literature, including significant authors, themes and hi...
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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature
2013
Presents articles on feminist literature, including significant authors, themes and history.
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Feminist literature--Encyclopedias - Women and literature--Encyclopedias - Feminism and literature--Encyclopedias - Women in literature--Encyclopedias - Feminism in literature--Encyclopedias - Women authors--Bio-bibliographyContent provider:
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Lives of the Novelists : A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
Sutherland, John;Sutherland, John
No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels wri...
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Lives of the Novelists : A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
2012
No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction—from gothic, penny dreadful, and pornography to fantasy, romance, and high literature. Each author was chosen, Professor Sutherland explains, because his or her books are well worth reading and are likely to remain so for at least another century. Sutherland presents these authors in chronological order, in each case deftly combining a lively and informative biographical sketch with an opinionated assessment of the writer's work. Taken together, these novelists provide both a history of the novel and a guide to its rich variety. Always entertaining, and sometimes shocking, Sutherland considers writers as diverse as Daniel Defoe, Henry James, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Archer, and Jacqueline Susann. Written for all lovers of fiction, Lives of the Novelists succeeds both as introduction and re-introduction, as Sutherland presents favorite and familiar novelists in new ways and transforms the less favored and less familiar through his relentlessly fascinating readings.
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Novelists--Biography - Fiction--History and criticism - English fiction--History and criticism - Novelists, English--Biography - American fiction--History and criticismContent provider:
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Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers : From Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code
Sarah Churchwell;Thomas Ruys Smith;Sarah Churchwell;Thomas Ruys Smith
What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books...
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Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers : From Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code
2012
What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books remain popular for centuries, and others fade gently into obscurity? And why is it that when scholars do turn their attention to bestsellers, they seem only to be interested in the same handful of blockbusters, when so many books that were once immensely popular remain under-examined?Addressing those and other equally pressing questions about popular literature, Must Read is the first scholarly collection to offer both a survey of the evolution of American bestsellers as well as critical readings of some of the key texts that have shaped the American imagination since the nation's founding.Focusing on a mix of enduring and forgotten bestsellers, the essays in this collection consider 18th and 19th century works, like Charlotte Temple or Ben-Hur, that were once considered epochal but are now virtually ignored; 20th century favorites such as The Sheik and Peyton Place; and 21st century blockbusters including the novels of Nicholas Sparks, The Kite Runner, and The Da Vinci Code.
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Books and reading--United States--History - Popular literature--United States--History and criticism - Best sellers--United States--History - American fiction--History and criticismContent provider:
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Doing Literary Business : American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century
Susan Coultrap-McQuin;Susan Coultrap-McQuin
Coultrap-McQuin investigates the reasons for women's unprecedented literary profession...
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Doing Literary Business : American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century
1990
Coultrap-McQuin investigates the reasons for women's unprecedented literary professionalism in the nineteenth century, highlighting the experiences of E.D.E.N. Southworth , Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gail Hamilton, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. She examines the cultural milieu of women writers, the ideals and practices of the literary marketplace, and the characteristics of women's literary activities that brought them success. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
