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Private Woman, Public Stage Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America

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ISBN-10: 0807854220

ISBN-13: 9780807854228

Edition: 2002 (Reprint)

Authors: Mary Kelley

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In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century's most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley's landmark study: Maria Cummins, Caroline Howard Gilman, Caroline Lee Hentz, Mary Jane Holmes, Maria McIntosh, Sara Parton, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Virginia Terhune, Susan Warner, and Augusta Evans Wilson. These women shared more than commercial success. Collectively they created fictions that Kelley terms "literary domesticity," books that both embraced and called into question the complicated expectations shaping the lives of so many nineteenth-century…    
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Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 0.374

Mary Kelley is Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author or editor of several books, including Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in Ameri

Preface
Peculiar Circumstances
The Fanny Fern
Fame Never Was
The Season of Instruction
Rights of the Mind, Duties to the Sphere
The Notice of the World
Secret Writers
No Happy Woman Writes
Buying My Time
A Man's Clothing
Warfare Within
The Crisis of Domesticity: A Crisis of Being
The Great Question of Moral Life
Preachers of the Fictional Page
A Right Regard for Womanhood: A Word or Two on All Sides
Epilogue
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliographical Note
Index