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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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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
- 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