Legacy Bookshelf

Below is a selected sampling of current books, articles, and dissertations relevant to the study of American women writers from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries. Prices unless otherwise indicated are for hardcover editions.

Individual Authors

Alcott, Louisa May

Dyckfehderau, Ruth. “Moral Pap and Male Mothers: The Political Subtexts of Louisa May Alcott’s Eight Cousin or, The Aunt Hill.” Legacy 16 (1999): 154–67.

Hollinger, Karen, and Teresa Winterhalter. “A Feminist Romance: Adapting Little Women to the Screen.”

Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 18 (1999): 173–92.

Stadler, Gustavus. “Louisa May Alcott’s Queer Geniuses.” American Literature 71 (1999): 657–77.

Watanabe, Kazuko. “Reading Little Women, Reading Motherhood in Japan.” Feminist Studies 25 (1999): 699–709.

Austin, Mary

Zwinger, Ann H. Mary Austin and John Muir: Writing the Western Landscape. Boston: Beacon, 1999. 208 pp. $14.00 paper.

Barnes, Djuna

Martins, Susana S. “Gender Trouble and Lesbian Desire in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood.” Frontiers 20.3 (1999):

108–26.

Blake, Lillie Devereux

Farrell, Grace. “Empty Lots/Lost Canons: The Case of Yale’s ‘Lady of the Night.’ ” Legacy 17 (2000): 73–82.

Bradstreet, Anne

Shimek, Suzanne. “The Tenth Muses Lately Sprung up in the Americas: The Borders of the Female Subject in Sor Juana’s ‘First Dream’ and Anne Bradstreet’s ‘Contemplations.’ ” Legacy 17 (2000): 1–17.

Cary, Mary Ann Shadd

Rhodes, Jane. Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998. 320 pp. $39.95/$18.95 paper.

Cather, Willa

Bower, Stephanie. “ ‘Something Coarse and Concealed’: Female Sexuality in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady.” Legacy 17 (2000): 59–72.

Goodman, Audrey. “The Immeasurable Possession of Air: Willa Cather and the Southwestern Romance.” Arizona Quarterly 55.4 (1999): 49–78.

McGiveron, Rafeeq O. “From a ‘Stretch of Grey Sea’ to the ‘Extent of Space’: The Gaze Across Vistas in Cather’s The Professor’s House.” Western American Literature 34 (1999): 388–409.

Chopin, Kate

Berkove, Lawrence I. “Fatal Self-Assertion in Kate Chopin’s ‘The Story of an Hour.’ ” American Literary Realism 32 (2000): 152–58.

Nelles, William. “Edna Pontellier’s Revolt Against Nature.” American Literary Realism 31 (1999): 43–50. O’Rourke, James. “Secrets and Lies: Race and Sex in The Awakening.” Legacy 16 (1999): 168–76. Walker, Nancy. “ ‘A group of people at my disposal’: Humor in the Works of Kate Chopin.” Legacy 17 (2000): 48 –58.

Churchill, Caroline

Thompson, Jennifer A. “From Travel Writer to Newspaper Editor: Caroline Churchill and the Development of Her Political Ideology Within the Public Sphere.” Frontiers 20.3 (1999): 42–63.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

Schocket, Eric. “ ‘Discovering Some New Race’: Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills and the Literary Emergence of Working-Class Whiteness.” PMLA 115 (2000): 46–59.

Dickinson, Emily

Bernhard, Mary Elizabeth Kromer. “Lost and Found: Emily Dickinson’s Unknown Daguerreotypist.” New England Quarterly 72 (1999): 594–601.

McIntosh, James. Nimble Believing: Dickinson and the Unknown. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2000. 208 pp. $42.50.

Mitchell, Domhnall. Emily Dickinson: Monarch of Perception. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1999. 336 pp. $40.00.

See also the Emily Dickinson Journal.

Eastman, Mary

Bellin, Joshua David. “The Squaw’s Tale: Sympathy and Storytelling in Mary Eastman’s Dahcotah.” Legacy 17 (2000): 18–32.

Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins

Jirousek, Lori. “Haunting Hysteria: Wharton, Freeman, and the Ghosts of Masculinity.” American Literary Realism 31 (1999): 51–68.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Knight, Denise D. “Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Shadow of Racism.” American Literary Realism 32 (2000): 159–69.

Grimke, Angelina´

Browne, Stephen H. Angelina Grimké: Rhetoric, Identity, and the Radical Imagination. Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1999. 224 pp. $50.00/$24.95 paper.

Harper, Frances E. W.

Foster, Frances Smith, ed. Minnie’s Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels. Boston: Beacon, 2000. 304 pp. $14.00 paper.

Hopkins, Pauline

Randle, Gloria T. “Mates, Marriage, and Motherhood: Feminist Visions in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 18 (1999): 193–214.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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