Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: EssaysVictoria Brehm Wayne State University Press, 2001 - 255 pages "These essays explore topics crucial to understanding the period's literature and suggest new directions for scholarship. Together they constitute a collection that expands the available body of criticism about Woolson and her contemporaries. This book is indispensable reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century women's fiction and travel writing."--Jacket. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Elizabeth Stoddards | 31 |
Constance Fenimore Woolsons Critique of Emersonian | 51 |
Inheriting the Epitome in Sarah Orne | 67 |
Romantic Love and WifeBattering in Constance Fenimore | 83 |
Constance Fenimore Woolsons | 99 |
Woolsons Great Lakes Illustrated | 119 |
Constance | 141 |
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