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This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story. The introductory chapter discusses why genre critics have ignored works by women and why feminist scholars have ignored the short story genre. Subsequent chapters discuss early stories by such authors as Lydia Maria Child and Rose Terry Cooke. Others are devoted to the influences (race, class, sexual orientation, education) that have shaped women's short fiction through the years. Women's special stylistic, formal and thematic concerns are also discussed in this study. The final essay addresses the ways our contemporary creative-writing classes are stifling the voices of emerging young female authors. The collection includes an extensive five-part bibliography.
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Index
African American women, representations of 194, 195, 198, 201, 202, 209, 210, 216, 225, 226, 228
African American women writers (lists of) 196, 197, 199, 202, 203
Afro-American 198
ageing, theme of 145
Alcott, Louisa May 73. Works:
Behind a Mask, Or, A Woman's Power 47, 51
Little Women 46
"The Mysterious Key arid What It Opened" 45, 57
"Pauline's Passion and Punishment" 45, 47, 51
"V. V., Or, Plots and Counterplots" 47, 57
allegory, use of 122, 216, 223
Allen, Paula Gunn 158, 159
allusion, use of 124
American literary tradition 122, 251, 313
Anderson, Margaret 115
Anderson, Sherwood 296
Anglo-African 192, 193
anthologies xxxii
Antin, Mary 142
Antioch Review 201
anti-semitism, theme of 123, 127
anti-suffragism 19, 24, 27, 28, 29
Ashton, Bertha 90
Atherton, Gertrude 73
Atlantic Monthly 19, 28, 29, 34, 192, 193
Atwood, Carroll 45
Atwood, Margaret 278
Austin, Mary 153-155. Works:
Earth Horizon 153
"The Fakir" 160
"The Hoodoo of the Minnietta" 158
"The Land" 156, 161-163
Lost Borders 153-155, 160, 163, 164
"The Ploughed Lands" 159
"Regionalism in American Fiction" 159
"The Return of Mr. Wills" 159
"The Walking Wom...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Original Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- General Editor's Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Literary Excellence and Social Reform: Lydia Maria Child's Ultraisms for the 1840s
- Fiction as Political Discourse: Rose Terry Cooke's Antisuffrage Short Stories
- Elizabeth Stoddard: An Examination of Her Work as Pivot Between Exploratory Fiction and the Modern Short Story
- Who Was That Masked Woman? Gender and Form in Louisa May Alcott's Confidence Stories
- Ripe Fruit: Fantastic Elements in the Short Fiction of Ellen Glasgow, Edith Wharton, and Eudora Welty
- Lady Terrorists: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Ghost Story
- Representations of Female Authorship in Turn-of-the-Century American Magazine Fiction
- Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century
- Martha Wolfenstein's Idyls of the Gass and the Dilemma of Ethnic Self-Representation
- Fannie Hurst's Short Stories of Working Women—"Oats for the Woman," "Sob Sister," and Contemporary Reader Responses: A Meditation
- Lost Borders and Blurred Boundaries: Mary Austin as Storyteller
- Ritual and Renewal: Keres Traditions in the Short Fiction of Leslie Silko
- "A Revolutionary Tale": In Search of African American Women's Short Story Writing
- Society and Self in Alice Walker's In Love and Trouble
- Displaced Abjection and States of Grace: Denise Chávez's The Last of the Menu Girls
- Dorothy Parker's Perpetual Motion
- The "Feminine" Short Story in America: Historicizing Epiphanies
- Joyce Carol Oates: Reimagining the Masters, Or, A Woman's Place Is in Her Own Fiction
- Gender and Genre: The Case of the Novel-in-Stories
- The Great Ventriloquist Act: Gender and Voice in the Fiction Workshop
- Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Bibliography of Secondary Sources
- Contributors
- Index