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Legacy 18.1 (2001) 121-133



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Legacy Bookshelf

Compiled By Margaret M.S. Lowry
Texas Christian University


Below is a selected sampling of current books, articles, and dissertations relevant to the study of American women writers from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. Prices unless otherwise indicated are for hardcover editions.

Individual Authors

Alcott, Louisa May

Doyle, Christine. Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Brontë: Transatlantic Translations. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2000. 232 pp. $28.00.

Eiselein, Gregory. "Sentimental Discourse and the Bisexual Erotics of Work." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 41 (1999): 203-35.

Englund, Sheryl A. "Reading the Author in Little Women: A Biography of a Book." American Transcendental Quarterly 12 (1998): 199-220.

Erisman, Fred. "Thoreau, Alcott, and the Mythic West." Western American Literature 34 (1999): 302-15.

Franklin, Rosemary F. "Louisa May Alcott's Father(s) and 'The Marble Woman.' " American Transcendental Quarterly 13 (1999): 253-68.

Johnson, Claudia Durst. "'Transcendental Wild Oats' or The Cost of an Idea." American Transcendental Quarterly 12 (1998): 45-65.

Stoneley, Peter. "'The Fashionable World Displayed': Alcott and Social Power." Studies in American Fiction 27 (1999): 21-36.

Ashbridge, Elizabeth

Madden, Etta M. "Quaker Elizabeth Ashbridge as 'the Spectacle & discourse of the Company' ": Metaphor, Synecdoche, and Synthesis." Early American Literature 34 (1999): 171-89.

Austin, Mary

Alaimo, Stacy. "The Undomesticated Nature of Feminism: Mary Austin and the Progressive Women." Studies in American Fiction 26 (1998): 73-96.

Barnes, Djuna

Berni, Christine. "'A Nose-Length into the Matter': Sexology and Lesbian Desire in Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack." Frontiers 20 (1999): 83-107.

Blyn, Robin. "From Stage to Page: Franz Kafka, Djuna Barnes, and Modernism's Freak Fictions." Narrative 8 (2000): 134-60.

Bishop, Elizabeth

Lowney, John." 'Littered with Old Correspondences': Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and the 1930s."Arizona Quarterly 55.2 (1999): 87-114.

Boston, Patience

Harvey, Tamara. "'Taken from her Mouth': Narrative Authority and the Conversion of Patience Boston." Narrative 6 (1998): 256-70.

Bradstreet, Anne

Harvey, Tamara. "'Now Sisters . . . Impart your Usefulness and Force': Anne Bradstreet's Feminist Functionalism." Early American Literature 35 (2000): 5-28.

Cather, Willa

Boutry, Katherine. "Between Registers: Coming In and Out Through Musical Performance in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark." Legacy 17 (2000): 187-98.

Funda, Evelyn. "A Chorus of Gossips: Mistaking Invasion for Intimacy in Willa Cather's A Lost Lady." Narrative 7 (1999): 89-113.

Holmes, Catherine D. "Jim Burden's Lost Worlds: Exile in My Ántonia." Twentieth Century Literature 45 (1999): 336-46.

Lucenti, Lisa Marie. "Willa Cather's The Professor's House: Sleeping with the Dead." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 41 (1999): 236-61.

McDonald, Joyce. The Stuff of Our Forebears: Willa Cather's Southern Heritage. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1998. 142 pp. $29.95.

O'Brien, Sharon, ed. New Essays on My Ántonia. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. 140 pp. $17.95.

Stout, Janis P. "Willa Cather's Early Journalism: Gender, Performance, and the 'Manly Battle Yarn.' " Arizona Quarterly 55.3 (1999): 51-82.

Tellefsen, Blythe. "Blood in the Wheat: Willa Cather's My Ántonia." Studies in American Fiction 27 (1999): 229-44.

See also the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter and Review.

Child, Lydia Maria

Hoeller, Hildegard. "A Quilt for Life: Lydia Maria Child's The American Frugal Housewife." American Transcendental Quarterly 13 (1999): 89-104.

Newlyn, Andrea K. "Form and Ideology in Transracial Narratives: Pudd'nhead Wilson and A Romance of the Republic." Narrative 8 (2000): 43-65.

Vaux, Molly. " 'But Maria, did you really write this?': Preface as Cover Story in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok." Legacy 17 (2000): 127-40.

Chopin, Kate

Barrish, Phillip. "The Awakening's Signifying 'Mexicanist' Presence." Studies in American Fiction 28 (2000): 65-76.

Bartley, William. "Imagining the Future in The Awakening." College English 62 (2000): 719-46.

Bonner, Thomas Jr., and Judith H. Bonner. "Kate Chopin's New Orleans: A Visual Essay." Southern Quarterly 37.3-4 (1999): 52-64.

Brown, Pearl L. "Awakened Men in Kate Chopin's Creole Stories." American Transcendental Quarterly 13 (1999): 69-82.

Dickson, Rebecca. "Kate Chopin, Mrs. Pontellier, and Narrative Control." Southern Quarterly...

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