Scribbling Women
560 pages, 6 x 9 1/4
Paperback
Release Date:01 Jan 1997
ISBN:9780813523934
Scribbling Women
Short Stories by 19th-Century American Women
Rutgers University Press
With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, Inventing Herself is an expansive and timely exploration of three centuries of feminist intellectuals, each of whom possesses a boundless determination to alter the world by boldly experiencing love, achievement, and fame on a grand scale. Focusing on paradigmatic figures ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret Fuller to Germaine Greer and Susan Sontag, preeminent scholar Elaine Showalter uncovers common themes and patterns of women's lives across the centuries and discovers the feminist intellectual tradition they embodied. The author brilliantly illuminates the contributions of Eleanor Marx, Zora Neale Hurston, Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead, and many more.
Showalter, a highly regarded critic known for her provocative and strongly held opinions, has here established a compelling new Who's Who of women's thought. Certain to spark controversy, the omission of such feminist perennials as Gloria Steinem, Susan B. Anthony, Robin Morgan, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Virginia Woolf will surprise and shock the conventional wisdom.
Elaine Showalter is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She is the author and editor of many books on women's writing, including Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing.
Note on the Authors
Note on the Editors
Chronology of the Authors' Lives and Times
Introduction
Cacoethes Scribendi - Catharine Sedgwick
The Angel Over The Right Shoulder - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The Two Offers - Frances Harper
Circumstance - Harriet Prescott Spofford
Life in the Iron Mills - Rebecca Harding Davis
Marcia - Rebecca Harding Davis
My Contraband - Louisa May Alcott
Behind a Mask; or, A Woman's Power - Louisa May Alcott
A New England Nun - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
A Poetess - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Old Woman Magoun - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Sister Liddy - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Miss Grief - Constance Fenimore Woolson
At the Chateau of Corrine - Constance Fenimore Woolson
A White Heron - Sarah Orne Jewett
The Town Poor - Sarah Orne Jewett
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Turned - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Story of an Hour - Kate Chopin
The Storm - Kate Chopin
Souls Belated - Edith Wharton
Paul's Case - Willa Cather
A Jury of Her Peers - Susan Glaspell
Notes
The Authors and Their Critics
Suggestions for Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Note on the Editors
Chronology of the Authors' Lives and Times
Introduction
Cacoethes Scribendi - Catharine Sedgwick
The Angel Over The Right Shoulder - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The Two Offers - Frances Harper
Circumstance - Harriet Prescott Spofford
Life in the Iron Mills - Rebecca Harding Davis
Marcia - Rebecca Harding Davis
My Contraband - Louisa May Alcott
Behind a Mask; or, A Woman's Power - Louisa May Alcott
A New England Nun - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
A Poetess - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Old Woman Magoun - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Sister Liddy - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Miss Grief - Constance Fenimore Woolson
At the Chateau of Corrine - Constance Fenimore Woolson
A White Heron - Sarah Orne Jewett
The Town Poor - Sarah Orne Jewett
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Turned - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Story of an Hour - Kate Chopin
The Storm - Kate Chopin
Souls Belated - Edith Wharton
Paul's Case - Willa Cather
A Jury of Her Peers - Susan Glaspell
Notes
The Authors and Their Critics
Suggestions for Further Reading
Acknowledgements
