American Women Regionalists 1850–1910 – A Norton Anthology - Softcover

Fetterley, Judith; Pryse, Marjorie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393313638 ISBN 13: 9780393313635

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996

Synopsis

Sixty-four stories and sketches by fourteen writers are brought together in this groundbreaking anthology to trace a tradition of women's writing in America. Crossing boundaries of region and ethnicity, these works are by writers popular in their time but neglected in the twentieth century. In American Women Regionalists readers will find writing that charts the imagination and talent of some of our most compelling voices. Included in the collection are works by New Englanders Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett, Tennessean Mary Noailles Murfree, New Orleans writers Kate Chopin and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Native American Zitkala-Sa, and Western writers Sui Sin Far and Mary Austin, among others. Together these writers enable readers to reconstruct a women's tradition of sketches and short stories from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Willa Cather. To help contextualize the stories and sketches, Pryse and Fetterley provide a general introduction, biographical/critical headnotes, and bibliographies for further reading.

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From the Back Cover:

American Women Regionalists includes a general introduction that suggests lines of influence among the writers included in the anthology and places regionalism in the context of American literary history. The editors have also provided notes to the texts, biographical / critical prefaces for each author, and selected bibliographies.

Synopsis:

This work provides a collection of 64 stories and sketches by 14 writers, with the aim of tracing a tradition of women's writing in America. Crossing boundaries of region and ethnicity, these works are by women popular in their time but largely neglected in the 20th century.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393313638
• ISBN 13: 9780393313635
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672