Research Catalog

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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Details

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