Book Cover; Title; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Becoming Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard; Female Self-Expression in a Sentimental Age: The Pythoness and the Sentinels of Genteel Literature; ̃I was not allowed to give myself; I was takeñ: Passive Women and Feminized Men; ̃Shall I dare tell the truth about men and women?̃: Reconstructing the Victorian Self; Rewriting Region: The Postbellum Celebration of New England; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BlBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
This book traces Stoddard's emergence as a writer in the 1850s, a period that boasts some of American literature's most iconoclastic voices