Reclaiming Authorship Literary Women in America, 1850-1900 Susan S. Williams "Reclaiming Authorship augments our knowledge of the female literary tradition and enriches our grasp of the process by which women authors sought public status in a literary publishing marketplace which was (and remains) customarily considered to be a masculine realm. It challenges, moreover, basic tenets of the origins of realism and does so by positing a definable historical transition from the romantic and sentimental to the realist."--Cecelia Tichi, Vanderbilt University There was, in the nineteenth...
Reclaiming Authorship Literary Women in America, 1850-1900 Susan S. Williams "Reclaiming Authorship augments our knowledge of the female litera...
The essays gathered in this volume represent renewed interest in the history of the American book. Inspired by the work of William Charvat, the contributors trace the complex web of "reciprocal influences" among authors, readers, and the publishing trade in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Contributors to the volume are Martha Banta, Lawrence Buell, Steven Fink, Frances Smith Foster, Michael T. Gilmore, Jay Grossman, Julian Markels, Meredith L. McGill, Grantland S. Rice, Susan S. Williams, and Michael Winship. Their essays examine the poetry of Whitman and Melville; the...
The essays gathered in this volume represent renewed interest in the history of the American book. Inspired by the work of William Charvat, the contri...
