Monika M. Elbert - Making the "America of Art": Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, and: Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 1850–1900 (review) - Legacy 24:1 Legacy 24.1 (2007) 135-137 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Monika Elbert Montclair State University Making the "America of Art": Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. By Naomi Z. Sofer. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005. 320 pp. $39.95 cloth/$9.95 CD. Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 1850–1900. By Susan S. Williams. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 264 pp. $59.95. Making the "America of Art" and Reclaiming Authorship overlap in their focus on nineteenth-century American women's writing as a serious art and a serious business. Both books build upon traditions of female authorship presented in earlier groundbreaking analyses, most notably by Susan Coultrap-McQuin and Susan K. Harris, in their respective studies, Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century and 19th-Century American Womens's Novels: Intepretive Strategies. Sofer's and Williams's studies...