附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Susanna Rowson, father of the American novel / Jane Tompkins --Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie : radical frontier romance / Carol J. Singley -- Reinventing Lydia Sigourney / Nina Baym -- Domesticity and the economics of independence : resistance and revolution in the work of Fanny Fern / Joyce W. Warren -- Harriet Jacobs's Incidents and the "careless daughters" (and sons) who read it / Frances Smith Foster -- Only a story, not a romance : Harriet Beecher Stowe's The pearl of Orr's Island / Judith Fetterley -- Eaconomies of space : markets and marketability in Our nig and Iola Leroy / Karla F.C. Holloway -- "America" as community in three antebellum village sketches / Sandra A. Zagarell -- The American renaissance reenvisioned / Joanne Dobson -- "Doers of the word" : theorizing African-American women writers in the antebellum North / Carla L. Peterson.
(cont.) "What methods have brought blessing" : discourses of reform in philanthropic literature / Deborah Carlin -- Breaking the sentence : local-color literature and subjugated knowledges / Josephine Donovan -- The tradition of American Jewish women writers / Diane Lichtenstein -- "But is it any good?" : evaluating nineteenth-century American women's fiction / Susan K. Harris -- Teaching nineteenth-century women writers / Paul Lauter.
