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1 online resource (308 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction: Crossing Can(n)on Street -- Ellen Weinauer and Robert McClure Smith; Biographical Foreword: Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823-1902) -- Sandra A. Zagarell; Part 1. The Writer, the Canon, and the Protocols of Print; 1. "Among a Crowd, I Find Myself Alone": Elizabeth Stoddard and the Canon of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry -- Robert McClure Smith; 2. Elizabeth Stoddard as Returned Californian: A Reading of the Daily Alta California Columns -- Margaret A. Amstutz |
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3. Haunting the House of Print: The Circulation of Disembodied Texts in "Collected by a Valetudinarian" and "Miss Grief " -- Paul CrumbleyPart 2. Gender, Selfhood, and the Discourse of Domesticity; 4. "I Am Cruel Hungry": Dramas of Twisted Appetite and Rejected Identification in Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons -- Julia Stern; 5. "Perversions of Volition": Self-Starvation and Self-Possession in Dickinson and Stoddard -- Susanna Ryan; 6. Home Coming and Home Leaving: Interrogations of Domesticity in Elizabeth Stoddard's Harper's Fiction, 1859-1891 -- Jamie Osterman Alves |
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Part 3. Race, Reconstruction, and American Citizenship7. The "American Sphinx" and the Riddle of National Identity in Elizabeth Stoddard's Two Men -- Jennifer Putzi; 8. (Un)Natural Attractions? Incest and Miscegenation in Two Men -- Lisa Radinovsky; 9. Reconstructing Temple House -- Ellen Weinauer; Afterword: Will Stoddard Endure? -- Lawrence Buell; Works Cited; Contributors; Index |
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Elizabeth Stoddard was a gifted writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism; successfully published within her own lifetime; esteemed by such writers as William Dean Howells and Nathaniel Hawthorne; and situated at the epicenter of New York's literary world. Nonetheless, she has been almost excluded from literary memory and importance. This book seeks to understand why. By reconsidering Stoddard's life and work and her current marginal status in the evolving canon of American literary studies, it raises important questions about women's writing in the 19th century and canon formation in |
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Print version record |
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Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902 fast |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Canon (Literature)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Canon (Literature)
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Women and literature
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United States
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Robert McClure.
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Weinauer, Ellen
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| ISBN |
9780817388225 |
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0817388222 |
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