Transatlantic Footholds: Turn-Of-The-Century American Women Writers and British Reviewers

ISBN-13: 9781032091341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

Stephanie Palmer

Opis

This book analyses British reviews of American women fiction writers, essayists and poets between the periods of literary domesticity and modernism in order to stretch the understanding of transatlanticism.

Spis treści

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. American Women's Books in the British Literary Marketplace

2. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Foothold in Britain

3. Readings of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman in and beyond the "English Craze"

4. Eyes to See Them: British Responses to Native Americans in the Works of Helen Hunt Jackson and Zitkala-Ša

5. Touching the Chords: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her British Fans

6. The Customs of that Other Country: Reading Edith Wharton in Britain

Epilogue

Selected Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Stephanie Palmer is Senior Lecturer of Nineteenth Century American Literature at Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, United Kingdom. She is the author of Together by Accident: American Local Color Literature and the Middle Class (2009) and articles in Symbiosis, Studies in Travel Writing, Women's Writing, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Arizona Quarterly, Pedagogy, and the essay collection, Transatlantic Conversations (2017).