Reclaiming Authorship : : Literary Women in America, 185-19 / / Susan S. Williams.
There was, in the nineteenth century, a distinction made between "writers" and "authors," Susan S. Williams notes, the former defined as those who composed primarily from mere experience or observation rather than from the unique genius or imagination of the latter. If women were...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Defining Female Authorship
- 2. Writing in and out of the Home: Parlor Culture and Authorship
- 3. Authorizing Reception: Maria Cummins and The Lamplighter
- 4. Revising Romance: Louisa May Alcott, Hawthorne, and the Civil War
- 5. Contractual Authorship: Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Abigail Dodge
- 6. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Ethical Authorship
- 7. Epilogue: Amateurs and Professionals in Woolson and James
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments