| Description |
xxx, 367 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1737. Wellesley studies in critical theory, literary history, and culture ; vol. 8 |
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Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1737.
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Garland reference library of the humanities. Wellesley studies in critical theory, literary history, and culture ; vol. 8.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-352) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Julie Brown -- Literary excellence and social reform: Lydia Maria Child's ultraisms for the 1840s / Bruce Mills -- Fiction as political discourse: Rose Terry Cooke's antisuffrage short stories / Sherry Lee Linkon -- Elizabeth Stoddard: an examination of her work as pivot between exploratory fiction and the modern short story / Timothy Morris -- Who was that masked woman? Gender and form in Louisa May Alcott's confidence stories / Gail K. Smith -- Ripe fruit: fantastic elements in the short fiction of Ellen Glasgow, Edith Wharton, and Eudora Welty / Stephanie Branson -- Lady terrorists: nineteenth-century American women writers and the ghost story / Barbara Patrick -- Representations of female authorship in turn-of-the-century American magazine fiction / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Lesbian magazine fiction in the early twentieth century / Lillian Faderman -- Martha Wolfenstein's Idyls of the gass and the dilemma of ethnic self-representation / Barbara Shollar -- Fannie Hurst's short stories of working women--"Oats for the woman," "Sob sister," and contemporary reader response: a meditation / Susan Koppelman -- Lost borders and blurred boundaries: Mary Austin as storyteller / Linda K. Karell -- Ritual and renwal: Keres traditions in the short fiction of Leslie Silko / A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff -- "A revolutionary tale": in search of African American women's short story writing / Bill Mullen -- Society and self in Alice Walker's In love and trouble / Dolan Hubbard -- Displaced abjection and states of grace: Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls / Douglas Anderson -- Dorothy Parker's perpetual motion / Ken Johnson -- The "feminine" short story in America: historicizing epiphanies / Mary Burgan -- Joyce Carol Oates: reimagining the masters, or, a woman's place is in her own fiction / Margaret Rozga -- Gender and genre: the case of the novel-in-stories / Margot Kelley -- The great ventriloquist act: gender and voice in the fiction workshop / Julie Brown. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American -- History and criticism.
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| Indexed Term |
English fiction Short stories By Women |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Brown, Julie, 1961-
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| ISBN |
0815313381 alkaline paper |
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