Soft Canons: American Women Writers

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments, ix The Conversation of “The Whole Family”: Gender, Politics, and Aesthetics in Literary Tradition, 1 Karen L. Kilcup gendered genealogies Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick: A Dialogue on Race, Culture, and Gender, 27 Susanne Opfermann Reconstructing Literary Genealogies: Frances E. W. Harper’s and William Dean Howells’s Race Novels, 48 M. Giulia Fabi Was Tom White? Stowe’s Dred and Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson, 67 Judie Newman Shaped by Readers: The Slave Narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, 82 Stephen Matterson genre matters Body Politics and the Body Politic in William Wells Brown’s Clotel and Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig, 99 R. J. Ellis Wild Semantics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Feminization of Edgar Allan Poe’s Arabesque Aesthetics, 123 Gabriele Rippl Deepening Hues to Local Color: George Washington Cable and Sarah Barnwell Elliott, 141 Aranzazu Usandizaga developing dialogues Sister Carrie and The Awakening: The Clothed, the Unclothed, and the Woman Undone, 167 Janet Beer Ladies Prefer Bonds: Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and the Money Novel, 184 Claire Preston Mining the West: Bret Harte and Mary Hallock Foote, 202 Janet Floyd My Banker and I Can Afford to Laugh! Class and Gender in Fanny Fern and Nathaniel Hawthorne, 219 Alison M. J. Easton transforming traditions Body/Rituals: The (Homo)Erotics of Death in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Rose Terry Cooke, and Edgar Allan Poe, 239 Ralph J. Poole The Five Million Women of My Race: Negotiations of Gender in W. E. B. Du Bois and Anna Julia Cooper, 262 Hanna Wallinger Woman Thinking: Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the American Scholar, 281 Lindsey Traub How Conscious Could Consciousness Grow? Emily Dickinson and William James, 306 Susan Manning Contributors, 333 Index, 337 ...