| Description |
1 online resource (398 pages) |
| Series |
Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture |
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Garland reference library of the humanities. Wellesley studies in critical theory, literary history, and culture.
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| Contents |
Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; General Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Literary Excellence and Social Reform: Lydia Maria Child's Ultraisms for the 1840s; Fiction as Political Discourse: Rose Terry Cooke's Antisuffrage Short Stories; Elizabeth Stoddard: An Examination of Her Work as Pivot Between Exploratory Fiction and the Modern Short Story; Who Was That Masked Woman? Gender and Form in Louisa May Alcott's Confidence Stories; Ripe Fruit: Fantastic Elements in the Short Fiction of Ellen Glasgow, Edith Wharton, and Eudora Welty |
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Lady Terrorists: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Ghost StoryRepresentations of Female Authorship in Turn-of-the-Century American Magazine Fiction; Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century; Martha Wolfenstein's Idyls of the Gass and the Dilemma of Ethnic Self-Representation; Fannie Hurst's Short Stories of Working Women-""Oats for the Woman, "" ""Sob Sister, "" and Contemporary Reader Responses: A Meditation; Lost Borders and Blurred Boundaries: Mary Austin as Storyteller; Ritual and Renewal: Keres Traditions in the Short Fiction of Leslie Silko |
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""A Revolutionary Tale"": In Search of African American Women's Short Story WritingSociety and Self in Alice Walker's In Love and Trouble; Displaced Abjection and States of Grace: Denise Chávez's The Last of the Menu Girls; Dorothy Parker's Perpetual Motion; The ""Feminine"" Short Story in America: Historicizing Epiphanies; Joyce Carol Oates: Reimagining the Masters, Or, A Woman's Place Is in Her Own Fiction; Gender and Genre: The Case of the Novel-in-Stories; The Great Ventriloquist Act: Gender and Voice in the Fiction Workshop; Bibliography of Primary Sources |
| Summary |
This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story. The introductory chapter discusses why genre critics have ignored works by women and why feminist scholars have ignored the short story genre. Subsequent chapters discuss early stories by such authors as Lydia Maria Child and Rose Terry Cooke. Others are devoted to the influences (race, class, sexual orientation, education) that have shaped women's short fiction through the years. Women's special stylistic, formal and thematic concerns are also discussed in this study. Th |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography of Secondary SourcesContributors; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Short stories, American -- History and criticism
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Short stories, American
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317954217 |
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1317954211 |
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