In Her Own Voice - Nineteenth-Century American Women Essayists

In Her Own Voice examines the literary history of women's nonfiction writing through studies of individual writers, their works, and their careers. The essays in this collection consider the development of women's public voices, relationships between women essayists and their editors and readers.

List of contents

Introduction, Women Writers and the Assumption of Authority: The Atlantic Monthly , 1857-1898 Conversation as Rhetoric in Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century Thumping Against the Glittering Wall of Limitations: Lydia Maria Child’s Letters from New York We Must Be about Our Father’s Business: Anna Julia Cooper and the In-Corporation of the Nineteenth-CenturyAfrican-American Woman Intellectual,I Thought From the Way You Writ, That You Were a Great Six-Footer of a Woman: Gender and the Public Voice in Fanny Fern’s Newspaper Essays ,Excising the Text, Exorcising the Author: Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 Literary Cross-Dressing in Old New York: Ann Sophia Stephens as Jonathan Slick, Gender and the Jeremiad: Gail Hamilton’s Antisuffrage Prophecy, The American Indian Story of Zitkala-Sa, Contributors' Notes

About the author

Linkon, Sherry L.

Summary

In Her Own Voice examines the literary history of women’s nonfiction writing through studies of individual writers, their works, and their careers. The essays in this collection consider the development of women’s public voices, relationships between women essayists and their editors and readers.

Product details

• Authors: Sherry L. Linkon, Sherry Lee Linkon
• Assisted by: Sherry Lee Linkon (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9781138001718
• ISBN: 978-1-138-00171-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Gender and Genre in Literature; Gender and Genre in Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, North America, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900