Synopses & Reviews
Every anthology constructs a tradition. Sitting directly in dialogue with the feminist literary recovery project of the past 30 years, this anthology constructs a tradition of American women’s writing that is truly multiple and inclusive, bringing together women’s voices from across a broad spectrum of U.S. social life. Anyone who cares about women’s literature is sure to be intrigued by this anthology’s radical vision of what the history of women’s writing truly has been.
Neither narrowly canonical nor exclusively literary, this 1200-page anthology features women’s voices as they appear in nontraditional public formats, such as trial transcripts, petitions and criminal confessions. It includes women’s writing in public formats other than just print, including speeches and song lyrics. It also features expanded selections from Chicanas, working class women and antebellum Native American women, as well as thematic concerns with disability, women’s sexuality, immigration and diaspora, women’s suffrage, and lynching. And it offers expanded selections of plays, including temperance and “minstrel” plays; travel narratives; as well as a broader range of fiction from both women’s magazines and “literary” magazines. The aim of Volume One (17th through 19th centuries) is to show when and where and how women entered into public discourse pre-20th century, and how that access varied according to race, national origin, class, education, geographical location, physical ability, etc. as well as how it varied over the two centuries. Some of these materials have not been reprinted since their original publication; many have never been available in “literature” or “women writers” anthologies.
Synopsis
Cultural Writing. Anyone who cares about women's literature is sure to be intrigued by this anthology's radical vision of the history of women's writing.Neither narrowly canonical nor exclusively literary, this 1200-page anthology features women's voices as they appear in nontraditional and traditional formats ranging from fiction, essays, drama and travel narratives to trial transcripts, song lyrics, criminal confessions and petitions. The aim of this volume is to show when and where and how women entered public discourse, and how that access varied over two centuries and according to race, national origin, class, education, geographical location, and physical ability.
Synopsis
The most comprehensive collection of U.S. Women writers ever published.
About the Author
Lisa Maria Hogeland is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Hogeland, who holds a B.A. in comparative literature and a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, is the author of a groundbreaking study on the consciousness-raising novel, Feminism and Its Fictions. Mary Klages is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. She is the author of Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America.