| Description |
439 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Next wave |
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Next wave (Duke University Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-422) and index. |
| Contents |
Separate spheres, female worlds, woman's place : the rhetoric of women's history / Linda K. Kerber -- "My sister! My sister!" : the rhetoric of Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie / Judith Fetterley -- Herman Melville, wife beating, and the written page / Elizabeth Renker -- Contradictory impulses : María Ampara Ruiz de Burton, resistance theory, and the politics of Chicano/a stuides / José F. Aranda Jr. -- Sex, class, and "category crisis" : reading Jewett's transitivity / Marjorie Pryse -- Manifest domesticity / Amy Kaplan -- Passing through the closet in Pauline E. Hopkins's Contending Forces / Siobhan Somerville -- Constructing the black masculine : Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the sublimits of African American autobiography / Maurice Wallace -- Native daughters in the promised land : gender, race, and the question of separate spheres / You-me Park and Gayle Wald -- Poor Eliza / Lauren Berlant -- Representative/democracy : presidents, democratic management, and the unfinished business of male sentimentalism / Dana D. Nelson -- Fathers, sons, sentimentality, and the color line : the not-quite-separate spheres of W.E.B. Du Bois and Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ryan Schneider -- "Few of our seeds ever come up at all" : a dialogue on Hawthorne, Delany, and the work of affect in visionary utopias / Christopher Newfield and Melissa Solomon. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Feminism and literature -- United States.
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Sex role in literature.
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| Added Author |
Davidson, Cathy N., 1949-
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Hatcher, Jessamyn, 1971-
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| ISBN |
082232878X cloth alkaline paper |
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0822328933 paperback alkaline paper |
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