In Her Own Voice: Nineteenth-Century American Women Essayists

by Sherry L. Linkon

Overview

In Her Own Voice examines the literary history of women’s nonfiction writing through studies of individual writers, their works, and their careers. The essays in this collection consider the development of women’s public voices, relationships between women essayists and their editors and readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815326526
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/01/1997
Series:	Gender and Genre in Literature , #9
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction, Women Writers and the Assumption of Authority: The Atlantic Monthly , 1857-1898Conversation as Rhetoric in Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century Thumping Against the Glittering Wall of Limitations: Lydia Maria Child’s Letters from New York We Must Be about Our Father’s Business: Anna Julia Cooper and the In-Corporation of the Nineteenth-CenturyAfrican-American Woman Intellectual,I Thought From the Way You Writ, That You Were a Great Six-Footer of a Woman: Gender and the Public Voice in Fanny Fern’s Newspaper Essays ,Excising the Text, Exorcising the Author: Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 Literary Cross-Dressing in Old New York: Ann Sophia Stephens as Jonathan Slick, Gender and the Jeremiad: Gail Hamilton’s Antisuffrage Prophecy, The American Indian Story of Zitkala-Sa, Contributors' Notes

Editorial Reviews

Nine essays offer thoughtful analyses of 19th-century nonfiction writing by women, examining the writers themselves, their work, and their careers, and adding an important element to critical understanding of women's literary history. Discussion includes how this literature affected and reflected 19th-century ideas of public and private, political and personal, and feminine and masculine. Among those studied are some well-known names<-->Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child, and Fanny Fern<-->as well as less- or little-known writers such as Gail Hamilton, Anna Julia Cooper, Ann Sophia Stephens, and Zitkala-Sa. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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