Legacy Bookshelf
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Compiled by Leslie M. Hammer
University of California, San Diego
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
Abate, Michelle Ann. "Topsy and Topsy-Turvy Jo: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and/in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women." Children's Literature 34 (2006): 59–82.
Kopacz, Paula. "'Sentimental and Foolish Moralizing': Bobbie Ann Mason and Louisa May Alcott." Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction 5.2 (2005): 73–81.
Matteson, John. "An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott." A Companion to American Fiction, 1865–1914. Ed. Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson. Malden: Blackwell, 2005. 451–67. 616 pp. $149.95.
Ross, Cheri Louise. "Louisa May Alcott's (Con)Temporary Periodical Fiction: The Thrillers Live On." Journal of Popular Culture 38 (2005): 911–23.
Shealy, Daniel. "Louisa May Alcott's Juvenilia." The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf. Ed. Christine Alexander and Juliet McMaster. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. 222–36. 312 pp. $90.00.
Antin, Mary
Buelens, Gert. "Absentee American and Impatient Immigrant (Re)appraising the Promised Land: Henry James and Mary Antin on the New England Scene." American Studies in Scandinavia 37.1 (2005): 34–56. [End Page 146]
Ashbridge, Elizabeth
Todd, Emily B. "Strategies for Teaching Elizabeth Ashbridge's Narrative to Reluctant Readers." Early American Literature 40 (2005): 357–61.
Austin, Mary
Staples, Joe. "'Discovering' New Talent: Charles F. Lummis's Conflicted Mentorship of Sui Sin Far, Sharlot Hall, and Mary Austin." Western American Literature 40 (2005): 175–205.
Beecher, Catharine
Ousley, Laurie. "The Business of Housekeeping: The Mistress, the Domestic Worker, and the Construction of Class." Legacy 23 (2006): 132–47.
Cather, Willa
Hill, David. "The Quotidian Sublime: Cognitive Perspectives on Identity-Formation in Willa Cather's My Ántonia." Arizona Quarterly 61.3 (2005): 109–27.
Lindner, Cristoph. "Willa Cather, Daniel Libeskind, and the Creative Destruction of Manhattan." Journal of American Culture 28.1 (2005): 114–21.
Petrie, Paul R. Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2005. 256 pp. $37.50.
Trout, Steven. "From 'The Namesake' to One of Ours: Willa Cather on War." American Literary Realism 37.2 (2005): 117–40.
Wilson, Anna. "Canonical Relations: Willa Cather, America, and The Professor's House." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 47.1 (2005): 61–74.
Child, Lydia Maria
Fiesta, Melissa. "Homeplaces in Lydia Maria Child's Abolitionist Rhetoric, 1833–1879." Rhetoric Review 25 (2006): 260–74.
Peeples, Scott. "Love and Theft in the Carolina Lowcountry." Arizona Quarterly 60.2 (2004): 35–56.
Pratt, Scott L. "Rebuilding Babylon: The Pluralism of Lydia Maria Child." Hypatia 19.2 (2004): 92–104.
Roberts, Heather. "'The Public Heart': Urban Life and the Politics of Sympathy in Lydia Maria Child's 'Letters from New York.'" American Literature 76 (2004): 749–75.
Chopin, Kate
Margraf, Erik. "Kate Chopin's The Awakening as a Naturalistic Novel." American Literary Realism 37.2 (2005): 93–116. [End Page 147]
Dickinson, Emily
Finnerty, Páraic. Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2006. 280 pp. $39.95.
Gardner, Thomas. A Door Ajar: Contemporary Writers and Emily Dickinson. New York: Oxford UP, 2006. 270 pp. $36.00.
See also the Emily Dickinson Journal.
Far, Sui Sin (Edith Maude Eaton)
See Staples on Austin.
Freeman, Mary Wilkins
Carter, James Bucky. "Princes, Beasts, or Royal Pains: Men and Masculinity in the Revisionist Fairy Tales of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman." Marvels & Tales 20.1 (2006): 30–46.
Fuller, Margaret
Kolk, Heidi. "Tropes of Suffering and Postures of Authority in Margaret Fuller's European Travel Letters." Biography 28 (2005): 377–413.
Rochelle, Warren G. "Ursula K. Le Guin's 'Always Coming Home' as Answer to Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes, in 1843." Foundation 35 (2006): 31–48.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Knittel, Jana. "Environmental History...
