Legacy Bookshelf
Rent from DeepDyve- 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.
Leslie M. Hammer
University of California, San Diego
Individual Authors
Alcott, Louisa May
Trites, Roberta Seelinger. Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2007. 236 pp. $34.95.
Google Scholar
Cather, Willa
Dooley, Patrick K. “Is Proselytizing Indigenous People an Act of Violence?: Willa Cather’s Missionaries in Shadows on the Rock and Death Comes for the Archbishop.” Cithara 46.2 (2007): 25–34.
Google Scholar
Laegreid, Renee M. “The Good, the Bad, and the Ignored: Immigrants in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!” Great Plains Quarterly 27 (2007): 101–15.
Google Scholar
See also the Willa Cather Newsletter & Review.
Chopin, Kate
Pierse, Mary S. “Paris as ‘Other’: George Moore, Kate Chopin, and French Literary Escape Routes.” ABEI Journal 8 (2006): 79–87.
Google Scholar
Streater, Kathleen M. “Adele Ratignolle: Kate Chopin’s Feminist at Home in The Awakening.” Midwest Quarterly 48 (2007): 406–16.
Google Scholar
Witherow, Jean. “Kate Chopin’s Dialogic Engagement with W. D. Howells: ‘What Cannot Love Do?’” Southern Studies 13.3 (2006): 101–16. [End Page 184]
Google Scholar
Dickinson, Emily
Adams, Maureen. Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brontë. New York: Ballantine, 2007. 320 pp. $24.95.
Google Scholar
Asahina, Midori. “‘Pursuing You in Your Transitions’: Reading the Epistolary Exchanges between Emily Dickinson and Helen Hunt Jackson.” Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan 5 (2006): 1–20.
Google Scholar
Brantley, Richard E. “From Loss to Gain: Aftermath in the Late Romantic Poetry of Emily Dickinson.” Symbiosis 10 (2006): 93–114.
Google Scholar
Felstiner, John. “‘Earth’s Most Graphic Transaction’: The Syllables of Emily Dickinson.” American Poetry Review 36.2 (2007): 7–11.
Google Scholar
Leiter, Sharon. Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work. New York: Facts on File, 2007. 448 pp. $75.00.
Google Scholar
Schwartz, Claudia. “Emily Dickinson’s Journeys Beyond Time.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 32 (2007): 83–99.
Google Scholar
Wilson, James Matthew. “Representing the Limits of Judgment: Yvor Winters, Emily Dickinson, and Religious Experience.” Christianity and Literature 56 (2007): 397–413.
Google Scholar
See also the Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin.
See also the Emily Dickinson Journal.
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.)
Dillon, Sarah. “Palimpsesting: Reading and Writing Lives in H. D.’s ‘Murex: War and Postwar London (circa A.D. 1916–1926).’” Critical Survey 19 (2007): 29–39.
Google Scholar
Scott, Jill. “Mourning to the Limit: The Gift of Forgiveness in H. D.” Modernism and Mourning. Ed. Patricia Rae. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2007. 271–85. 310 pp. $55.00.
Google Scholar
Willis, Elizabeth. “A Public History of the Dividing Line: H. D., the Bomb, and the Roots of the Postmodern.” Arizona Quarterly 63.1 (2007): 81–108.
Google Scholar
Eaton, Edith Maude (Sui Sin Far)
Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. “Sibling Hybridities: The Case of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far and Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna.” Life Writing 4.1 (2007): 81–99.
Google Scholar
Pan, Arnold. “Cosmopolitics from Below: Autobiography and Collective Identity in Sui Sin Far’s Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian.” Querying the Genealogy: Comparative and Transnational Studies in Chinese American Literature. Ed. Jennie Wang. Shanghai: Shanghai Translation, 2006. 557 pp. $13.95 paper.
Google Scholar
Fuller, Margaret
Eckel, Leslie E. “Margaret Fuller’s Conversation Journalism.” Arizona Quarterly 63 (2007): 27–50.
Google Scholar
Manson, Deborah. “‘The Trance of the Ecstatica’: Margaret Fuller, Animal Magnetism, and the Transcendent Female Body.” Literature and Medicine 25.2 (2006): 298–324. [End Page 185]
Google Scholar
Mills, Bruce. Poe, Fuller, and the Mesmeric Arts: Transition States in the American Renaissance. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2006. 224 pp. $39.95.
Google Scholar
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Duneer, Anita. “On the Verge of a Breakthrough: Projections of Escape from the Attic and the Thwarted Tower in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and Susan Glaspell’s The Verge.” Journal of American Drama...
