Women's Writing in Contemporary France
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English
ISBN
0-7190-5817-1
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett
1 Did Mark Twain bring down the temple on Scott’s shoulders? Susan Manning
2 Stowe’s sunny memories of Highland slavery Judie Newman
3 Gothic legacies: Jane Eyre in Elizabeth Stoddard’s New England Anne-Marie Ford
4 Our Nig: fetters of an American farmgirl R.J. Ellis
5 Crossing over: spiritualism and the Atlantic divide Bridget Bennett
6 Poet of comrades:Walt Whitman and the Bolton Whitman Fellowship Carolyn Masel
7 Nation making and fiction making: Sarah Orne Jewett, The Tory Lover, and Walter Scott, Waverley
8 Beyond the Americana: Henry James reads George Eliot Lindsey Traub
9 ‘If I Were a Man’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Grand and the sexual education of girls Janet Beer and Ann Heilmann
10 ‘Embattled tendencies’:Wharton,Woolf and the nature of Modernism Katherine Joslin
11 Unreal cities and undead legacies: T.S. Eliot and Gothic hauntings in Waugh’s A Handful of Dust and Barnes’s Nightwood Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik
12 Encounters with genius: Gertrude Stein and Alfred North Whitehead Kate Fullbrook
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