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Tables of Contents for The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Womens Writing
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
xi
Notes on contributors
xiii
Acknowledgments
xvi
Chronology of works and events 1773--1925
xvii
Introduction
1
18
Part 1: Historical and theoretical background
The postcolonial culture of early American women's writing
19
19
Women in public
38
31
Antebellum politics and women's writing
69
36
Part 2: Genre, tradition, and innovation
Captivity and the literary imagination
105
17
Nineteenth-century American women's poetry
122
21
Women at war
143
14
Women, anti-Catholicism, and narrative in nineteenth-century America
157
19
Immigration and assimilation in nineteenth-century US women's writing
176
27
Part 3: Case studies
The uses of writing in Margaret Bayard Smith's new nation
203
18
The sentimental novel: the example of Harriet Beecher Stowe
221
23
African-American women's spiritual narratives
244
18
The postbellum reform writings of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
262
22
``Strenuous Artistry'': Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons
284
24
Minnie's Sacrifice: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's narrative of citizenship
308
12
Conclusion
320
8
Index
328