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Coverpage
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Chronology of works and events 1773–1925
Introduction
Part 1: Historical and theoretical background
1 The postcolonial culture of early American women’s writing
2 Women in Public
3 Antebellum politics and women’s writing
Part 2: Genre, tradition, and innovation
4 Captivity and the literary imagination
5 Nineteenth-century American women’s poetry
6 Women at war
7 Women, anti-Catholicism, and narrative in nineteenth-century America
8 Immigration and assimilation in nineteenth-century US women’s writing
Part 3: Case studies
9 The uses of writing in Margaret Bayard Smith’s new nation
10 The sentimental novel: the example of Harriet Beecher Stowe
11 African-American women’s spiritual narratives
12 The postbellum reform writings of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
13 “Strenuous Artistry”: Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons
14 Minnie’s Sacrifice: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s narrative of citizenship
Conclusion
Index
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