E.D.E.N. Southworth: Recovering a Nineteenth-Century Popular Novelist

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction xiii Melissa J. homestead and Pamela T. Washington I. Serial Southworth E. D. E. N. Southworth’s Serial Novels retribution and The Mother-in-law as Vehicles for the Cause of Abolition in the national era: Setting the Stage for Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1 vicki l. Martin An Exclusive Engagement: The Personal and Professional Negotiations of vivia 25 Kenneth salzer The Hidden Agenda of The hidden hand: Periodical Publication and the Literary Marketplace in Late-Nineteenth-Century America 49 Alison M. scott and Amy M. Thomas II. Southworth’s Genres Illustrating Southworth: Genre, Conventionality, and The island Princess 77 Kathryn Conner Bennett Maniac Brides: Southworth’s Sensational and Gothic Transformations 107 Beth l. lueck Change of a Dress: Britomarte, the Man-hater and Other Transvestite Narratives of the Civil War 129 Annie Merrill ingram III. Intertextual Southworth E. D. E. N. Southworth: An “American George Sand”? 155 Charlene Avallone Revising Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Sympathy, the State, and the Role of Women in E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The lost heiress 183 Paul Christian Jones E. D. E. N. Southworth’s Tragic Muse 205 Karen Tracey IV. Southworth, Marriage, and the Law Poe, Southworth, and the Antebellum Wife 221 ellen Weinauer E. D. E. N. Southworth’s Reimagining of the Married Women’s Property Reforms 243 elizabeth stockton “What Did You Mean?” The Language of Marriage in The fatal Marriage and family Doom 265 Cindy Weinstein A Chronological Bibliography of E. D. E. N. Southworth’s Works Privileging Periodical Publication 285 Melissa J. homestead and vicki l. Martin Contributors 307 Index 311 ...