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Woman's fiction : a guide to novels by and about women in America, 1820-70 / Nina Baym.

Title
Woman's fiction : a guide to novels by and about women in America, 1820-70 / Nina Baym.
Author
Baym, Nina
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors
Cairns Collection of American Women Writers WU
Description
xlii, 327 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
"This reissue of the pioneering and standard book on antebellum women's domestic novels contains a new introduction situating the book in the context of important recent developments in the study of women's writing. Nina Baym considers 130 novels by 48 women, focusing on works by a dozen especially productive and successful writers.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
  • Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century
  • American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Women in literature
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Note
  • "An Illini Book from the University of Illinois Press"--Cover.
  • Originally published: Ithica, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1978
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-321) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Catharine Sedgwick and other early novelists -- Maria McIntosh -- E.D.E.N. Southworth and Caroline Lee Hentz -- Susan Warner, Anna Warner, and Maria Cummins -- Ann Stephens, Mary Jane Holmes, and Marion Harland -- Caroline Chesebro' -- Other novelists of the fifties -- Augusta Evans and the waning of woman's fiction -- A note on popularity.
ISBN
025206285X (acid-free paper)
LCCN
^^^92025929^
OCLC
  • 26255192
  • SCSB-11491690
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library