Soft canons : American women writers and masculine tradition /
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©1999.
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Table of Contents:
- The Conversation of "The Whole Family": Gender, Politics, and Aesthetics in Literary Tradition / Karen L. Kilcup
- Gendered Genealogies
- Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick: A Dialogue on Race, Culture, and Gender / Susanne Opfermann
- Reconstructing Literary Genealogies: Frances E.W. Harper's and William Dean Howells's Race Novels / M. Giulia Fabi
- Was Tom White? Stowe's Dred and Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson / Judie Newman
- Shaped by Readers: The Slave Narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs / Stephen Matterson
- Genre Matters
- Body Politics and the Body Politic in William Wells Brown's Clotel and Harriet Wilson's Our Nig / R.J. Ellis
- Wild Semantics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Feminization of Edgar Allan Poe's Arabesque Aesthetics / Gabriele Rippl
- Deepening Hues to Local Color: George Washington Cable and Sarah Barwell Elliott / Aranzazu Usandizaga
- Developing Dialogues
- Sister Carrie and The Awakening: The Clothed, the Unclothed, and the Woman Undone / Janet Beer
- Ladies Prefer Bonds: Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and the Money Novel / Claire Preston
- Mining the West: Bret Hare and Mary Hallock Foote / Janet Floyd
- My Banker and I Can Afford to Laugh! Class and Gender in Fanny Fern and Nathaniel Hawthorne / Alison M.J. Easton
- Transforming Traditions
- Body/Rituals: The (Homo)Erotics of Death in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Rose Terry Cooke, and Edgar Allan Poe / Ralph J. Poole
- The Five Million Women of My Race: Negotiations of Gender in W.E.B. Du Bois and Anna Julia Cooper / Hanna Wallinger
- Woman Thinking: Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the American Scholar / Lindsey Traub
- How Conscious Could Conscious Grow? Emily Dickinson and William James / Susan Manning.