{"product_id":"9780631200536","title":"Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers A Critical Reader","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBlackwell Critical Reader\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eNineteenth-Century American Women Writers\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Critical Reader\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKaren L. Kilcup\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ American \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis critical reader, specifically designed to accompany the anthology, contains twelve original essays - ten newly-written - on a wide range of topics, together with an introductory overview by the editor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResponding to the rich generic and thematic diversity of the writing represented in \u003ci\u003eNineteenth-century American Women Writers: An Anthology,\u003c\/i\u003e also edited by Karen L. Kilcup, this critical reader, specifically designed to accompany the anthology, contains twelve original essays - ten newly-written - on a wide range of topics, together with an introductory overview by the editor. The volume explores for students and scholars the interwoven matters of history, canonicity, and criticism, highlighting the collective importance of nineteenth-century women's writing, an illuminating in particular the complex hybrid texts and shorter genres that many women produced.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe essays address large conceptual issues and offer suggestive close readings of individual texts. They ask such questions as:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow do these texts use and \"misuse\" the conventions of their time to create new perspectives, forms, and voices?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat are the connections between various kinds of texts, writers, and genres?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow do issues of identity and location inform the writing and our interpretations of it?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat aesthetic, cultural, and political issues do these writers raise, both in their content and in their formal experiments?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopics covered include: literary nationalism and regionalism; Southern and western women writers; tradition and transformation in Native American and Mexican American women authors; race, reform, and sentimentality; disability, sentimentality and femininity; women's economic independence; spirituality and class in African-American women's literature; gender, genre, and feminist discourse; women poets and the cannon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eKaren L. Kilcup\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of American literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The recipient of a US national Distinguished Teacher award in 1987, Professor Kilcup has been named the Davidson Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities at Florida International University for Fall 2000. She is the author or editor of six books on American literature and culture, including\u003ci\u003e Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e (1999),\u003ci\u003e Robert Frost and Feminine Literary Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), and \u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (1997).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e07 July 1998\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780631200536\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e265\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18.24\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44384440975500,"sku":"9780631200536","price":119.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780631200536.jpg?v=1780154847","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9780631200536","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}