A Comprehensive Study of American Writer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911: Art for Truth's SakeEdwin Mellen Press, 2003 - 291 pages This work examines the novels, essays, and short stories of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps within their cultural/historical context. It examines the social climate and reform movements during Phelps' writing career, and shows how she was a woman ahead of her time in the 19th century. |
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... American literature and women writers ' place in it : " Great American fiction , so the twentieth century critical commonplace has run , is a literature of escape , a literature psychological , sym- bolic , cut off from topical social ...
... American literature and women writers ' place in it : " Great American fiction , so the twentieth century critical commonplace has run , is a literature of escape , a literature psychological , sym- bolic , cut off from topical social ...
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... American Women's Novels . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1990 . Hart , James D. The Popular Book . New York : Oxford UP , 1950 . Hoffert , Sylvia D. When Hens Crow : The Woman's Rights Movement in Antebel- lum America . Bloomington ...
... American Women's Novels . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1990 . Hart , James D. The Popular Book . New York : Oxford UP , 1950 . Hoffert , Sylvia D. When Hens Crow : The Woman's Rights Movement in Antebel- lum America . Bloomington ...
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... American Literature 68.3 ( 1996 ) : 555-61 . --- Extraordinary Bodies : Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature . New York : Columbia UP , 1997 . Trachtenberg , Alan . The Incorporation of America : Culture and ...
... American Literature 68.3 ( 1996 ) : 555-61 . --- Extraordinary Bodies : Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature . New York : Columbia UP , 1997 . Trachtenberg , Alan . The Incorporation of America : Culture and ...
Contents
The Literary Life of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | 1 |
Phelps | 27 |
The Fingers of the World | 61 |
Copyright | |
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Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and ... Ben Railton No preview available - 2007 |