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The (Other) American Traditions Nineteenth-Century Women Writers EDITED BY JOYCE W. WARREN RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS New Brunswick, New Jersey

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title	:	The (Other) American Traditions : Nineteenth-century Women Writers
author	:	Warren, Joyce W.
publisher	:	Rutgers University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0813519101
print isbn13	:	9780813519104
ebook isbn13	:	9780585025810
language	:	English
subject	Women and literature--United States--History--19th century, American literature--Women authors--History and criticism, American literature--19th century--History and criticism, Authors, American--19th century--Biography, Women authors, American--Biography
publication date	:	1993
lcc	:	PS147.O85 1993eb
ddc	:	810.9/9287/09034
subject	:	Women and literature--United States--History--19th century, American literature--Women authors--History and criticism, American literature--19th century--History and criticism, Authors, American--19th century--Biography, Women authors, American--Biography

Page iv Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The (Other) American traditions: nineteenth-century women writers / edited by Joyce W. Warren. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN O-8135-1910-I (cloth)ISBN O-8135-19111-X (pbk.) 1. Women and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th century. 2. American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism. 3. American literature19th centuryHistory and criticism. 4. Women authors, American19th centuryBiography. I. Warren, Joyce W. PS147.085 1993 810.9'9287'0934-dc20 92-10879 CIP British Cataloging-in-Publication information available Copyright 1993 by Rutgers University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America

Page v CONTENTS Preface vii Introduction: Canons and Canon Fodder JOYCE W. WARREN 1 THE WRITERS Susanna Rowson, Father of the American Novel JANE TOMPKINS 29 Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie: Radical Frontier Romance CAROL J. SINGLEY 39 Reinventing Lydia Sigourney NINA BAYM 54 Domesticity and the Economics of Independence: Resistance and Revolution in the Work of Fanny Fern JOYCE W. WARREN 73 Harriet Jacobs's Incidents and the "Careless Daughters" (and Sons) Who Read It FRANCES SMITH FOSTER 92 Only a Story, Not a Romance: Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Pearl of Orr's Island JUDITH FETTERLEY 108 Economies of Space: Markets and Marketability in Our Nig and IolaLeroy KARLA F. C. HOLLOWAY 126

Page ivi THE TRADITIONS "America" as Community in Three Antebellum Village Sketches SANDRA A. ZAGARELL 143 The American Renaissance Reenvisioned JOANNE DOBSON 164 "Doers of the Word": Theorizing African-American Women Writers in he Antebellum North CARLA L. PETERSON 183 "What Methods Have Brought Blessing": Discourses of Reform in Philanthropic Literature DEBORAH CARLIN 203 Breaking the Sentence: Local-Color Literature and Subjugated Knowledges JOSEPHINE DONOVAN 226 The Tradition of American Jewish Women Writers DIANE LICHTENSTEIN 244 "But is it any good?": Evaluating Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction SUSAN K. HARRIS 263 Teaching Nineteenth-Century Women Writers PAUL LAUTER 280 Contributors 303 Index 307

Page vii PREFACE IN 1857, A CONDESCENDING REVIEW OF A WOMAN'S BOOK IN THE New York Times stated, "Courtship and marriage,... and children, these are the great objects of a woman's thoughts, and they necessarily form the staple topics of their writings and their conversation. We have no right to expect anything else from a woman's book." Fanny Fern, one of the most outspoken women writers of the period, responded sharply:

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