Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems

"The well-educated daughter of a minister, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) was introduced to writing at a young age, as both her mother and father were published writers. In 1868 she published her first major novel, The Gates Ajar. An international success, the novel sold more than six hundred thousand copies, making it one of the best-selling American works of the nineteenth century. Through the next four decades Phelps published hundreds of essays, tales, and poems, which appeared in every major American periodical, while also writing novels, including Beyond the Gates (1883) and The Gates Between (1887). Phelps's legacy as an important American writer, however, has been hurt by the seeming contradictions between her life and work. For example, shewas an ardent advocate for women's rights both inside and outside marriage, but her stories seem to glorify the sort of extreme self-sacrifice associated with the most conservative domestic ideology. In this collection, the editors seek to restore Phelps's reputation by bringing together a diverse collection from the entire body of her lifetime of work. From arguments for suffrage to harrowing tales of Reconstruction, these essays, along with short fiction and poetry, provide a new perspective on a majorAmerican writer from the later nineteenth century. "--

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Editor’s Introduction

Note on the Text

Tales

The Tenth of January

Dr. Trotty

A Woman’s Pulpit

Since I Died

Fourteen to One: A True Story

The Rejected Manuscript

The Oath of Allegiance

Dea ex Machina

Essays

What Shall They Do?

The Higher Claim

Unhappy Girls

Selections from “Woman’s Dress (In Four Parts)”

II. Is It Healthful?

IV. What Can Be Done about It?

A Dream within a Dream

What Is a Fact?

Women’s Views of Divorce

The Moral Element in Fiction

The Short Story

Poems

Divided

Apple Blossoms

Stronger than Death

Afterward

George Eliot—Her Jury

Elaine and Elaine

The Lost Colors

Notes

Index

About the author

Elizabeth Duquette is an associate professor of English at Gettysburg College. She is the author of Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America. Cheryl Tevlin graduated summa cum laude from Gettysburg College in 2010.

Product details

Authors	Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart/ Duquette Phelps
Assisted by	Elizabeth Duquette (Editor), Cheryl Tevlin (Editor)
Publisher	University of Nebraska Press
Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	01.06.2014
EAN	9780803243972
ISBN	978-0-8032-4397-2
No. of pages	277
Series	Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers; Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers; Legacies of Nineteenth-Century
Subjects	Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart/ Duquette Phelps
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Duquette (Editor), Cheryl Tevlin (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2014
• EAN: 9780803243972
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-4397-2
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers; Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers; Legacies of Nineteenth-Century
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies