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- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 18, Number 2, 2001
- pp. 253-260
- 10.1353/leg.2001.0029
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Compiled By Margaret M.S. Lowry
Texas Christian University
Below is a selected sampling of current books, articles, and dissertations relevant to the study of American women writers from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. Prices unless otherwise indicated are for hardcover editions.
Individual Authors
Addams, Jane
Linn, James Weber. Jane Addams: A Biography. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2000. 504 pp. $15.95.
Alcott, Louisa May
Fahy, Christopher A. "Dark Mirrorings: The Influence of Fuller on Alcott's 'Pair of Eyes.'" ESQ 45 (1999): 131-59.
Barnes, Djuna
Henstra, Sarah. "Looking the Part: Performative Narration in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and Katherine Mansfield's 'Je Ne Parle Pas Français.'" Twentieth Century Literature 46 (2000): 125-49.
Cather, Willa
Acocella, Joan. Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2000. 127 pp. $20.00.
Lucenti, Lisa Marie. "Willa Cather's My Ántonia: Haunting the Houses of Memory." Twentieth Century Literature 46 (2000): 193-213.
Rosowski, Susan, ed. Willa Cather. Spec. issue of American Literary Realism 33.2 (2001): 95-180.
Cazneau, Jane McManus Storm
Hudson, Linda S. Mistress of Manifest Destiny: A Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, 1807-1878. Austin: Texas State Historical Association P, 2000. 300 pp. $29.95.
Chopin, Kate
Ferreira, Maria Aline Seabra. "An-Other Jouissance: Secular and Mystical Love in Kate Chopin's 'Two Portraits.'" Literature and Psychology 46.4 (2000): 42-56.
Staunton, John A. "Kate Chopin's 'One Story': Casting a Shadowy Glance on the Ethics of Regionalism." Studies in American Fiction 28 (2000): 203-34.
Cooke, Rose Terry
Holly, Carol. "The Cruelty of Husbands, the Complicity of Wives, and the Cooperation of Community in Rose Terry Cooke's 'Mrs. Flint's Married Experience.'" American Literary Realism 33 (2000): 65 -80.
Dickinson, Emily
Debo, Annette. "Dickinson Manuscripts in the Undergraduate Classroom." College Literature 27 (2000): 130-43.
Goluboff, Benjamin. "'If Madonna Be': Emily Dickinson and Roman Catholicism." New England Quarterly 73 (2000): 355 -85.
Messmer, Marietta. A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson's Correspondence. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2001. 280 pp. $34.95.
Mitchell, Domhnall. Emily Dickinson: Monarch of Perception. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2000. 352 pp. $40.00.
Stoneley, Peter. "'I-Pay-in Satin Cash-': Commerce, Gender, and Display in Emily Dickinson's Poetry." American Literature 72 (2000): 575-94.
See also the Emily Dickinson Journal.
Duniway, Abigail Scott
Ward, Jean M., and Elaine A. Maveety, eds. Yours for Liberty: Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper. Corvallis: Oregon State UP, 2000. 320 pp. $21.95.
Fauset, Jessie
Pfeiffer, Kathleen. "The Limits of Identity in Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun." Legacy 18 (2001): 79-93.
Fern, Fanny
Harker, Jaime. "'Pious Cant' and Blasphemy: Fanny Fern's Radicalized Sentiment." Legacy 18 (2001): 52-64.
Sánchez, María C. "Re-Possessing Individualism in Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall." Arizona Quarterly 56.4 (2000): 25-56.
Fuller, Margaret
Cody, Michael. "'The Whole of What I Want': Margaret Fuller on Milton and Marriage." English Language Notes 38.2 (2000): 48-61.
Cole, Phyllis. "Stanton, Fuller, and the Grammar of Romanticism." New England Quarterly 73 (2000): 533-59.
Kolodny, Annette. "Margaret Fuller's First Depiction of Indians and the Limits of Social Protest: An Exercise in Women's Studies Pedagogy." Legacy 18 (2001): 1-20.
Steele, Jeffrey. Transfiguring America: Myth, Ideology, and Mourning in Margaret Fuller's Writing. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2001. 280 pp. $34.95.
See Fahy on Alcott.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Carter-Sanborn, Kristin. "Restraining Order: The Imperialist Anti-Violence of Charlotte Perkins Gilman." Arizona Quarterly 56.2 (2000): 1-36.
Golden, Catherine J., and Joanna Schneider Zangrando, eds. The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Cranbury: U of Delaware P, 2000. 235 pp. $39.50.
González, Jovita
Cotera, María Eugenia. "Refiguring 'the American Congo': Jovita González, John Gregory Bourke, and the Battle over Ethno-Historical Representations of the Texas Mexican Border." Western American Literature 35.1 (2000): 75-94.
Tinnemeyer, Andrea. "Enlightenment Ideology and the Crisis of Whiteness in Francis Berrian and Caballero." Western American Literature 35...