Title | Constance Fenimore Woolson's nineteenth century : essays / edited by Victoria Brehm.
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Published | Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2001.
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Description | 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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ISBN | 0-8143-2933-0 (alk. paper) |
Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Formatted Note | Contents: Pt. 1. Precursors and contemporaries: the contexts of Woolson's art. Revising the legacy of 1970s feminist criticism / Nina Baym ; Negotiating models of authorship: Elizabeth Stoddard's conflicts and her story of complaint / Lisa Radinovsky ; Constance Fenimore Woolson's critique of Emersonian aesthetics / John H. Pearson ; Heir apparent: inheriting the epitome in Sarah Orne Jewett's A country doctor / Richard Adams ; Romantic love and wife-battering in Constance Fenimore Woolson's Jupiter lights / Caroline Gebhard -- Pt. 2. Fractured landscapes, mordant travelers: Woolson's regionalism. Castle somewhere: Constance Fenimore Woolson's reconstructed Great Lakes / Victoria Brehm ; Miss Martha and Ms. Woolson: persona in the travel sketches / Dennis Berthold ; "Clean forgotten": Woolson's Great Lakes illustrated / Kathleen Diffley ; "We are most of us dead down here": Constance Fenimore Woolson's travel writing and the reconstruction of Florida / Sharon Kennedy-Nolle ; Corinne silenced: improper places in the narrative form of Constance Fenimore Woolson's East angels / Katherine Swett ; Fern leaves from Connie's portfolio / Cheryl B. Torsney -- Pt. 3. The figure of the artist: Woolson, James, and Wharton. Anticipating James, anticipating grief: Constance Fenimore Woolson's "Miss Grief" / Anne E. Boyd ; The lesbian "impossibilities" of Miss Grief's "armor" / Kristin M. Comment ; Edith Wharton's early artist stories and Constance Fenimore Woolson / Sharon L. Dean.
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Subjects | Regionalism in literature. Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894 -- Contemporaries. Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation. Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894 -- Friends and associates.
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Other Authors | Brehm, Victoria, 1947-
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LC Card Number | 2001-1362 |
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| WRHS Research Library: PS 3363 C757 mq221465: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
[Record 133422] |
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