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Tables of Contents for The (Other) American Traditions
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Introduction: Canons and Canon Fodder
1
28
Joyce W. Warren
THE WRITERS
Susanna Rowson, Father of the American Novel
29
10
Jane Tompkins
Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie: Radical Frontier Romance
39
15
Carol J. Singley
Reinventing Lydia Sigourney
54
19
Nina Baym
Domesticity and the Economics of Independence: Resistance and Revolution in the Work of Fanny Fern
73
19
Joyce W. Warren
Harriet Jacobs's Incidents and the ``Careless Daughters'' (and Sons) Who Read It
92
16
Frances Smith Foster
Only a Story, Not a Romance: Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Pearl of Orr's Island
108
18
Judith Fetterley
Economies of Space: Markets and Marketability in Our Nig and Iola Leroy
126
17
Karla F. C. Holloway
THE TRADITIONS
``America'' as Community in Three Antebellum Village Sketches
143
21
Sandra A. Zagarell
The American Renaissance Reenvisioned
164
19
Joanne Dobson
``Doers of the Word'': Theorizing African-American Women Writers in the Antebellum North
183
20
Carla L. Peterson
``What Methods Have Brought Blessing'': Discourses of Reform in Philanthropic Literature
203
23
Deborah Carlin
Breaking the Sentence: Local-Color Literature and Subjugated Knowledges
226
18
Josephine Donovan
The Tradition of American Jewish Women Writers
244
19
Diane Lichtenstein
``But is it any good?'': Evaluating Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction
263
17
Susan K. Harris
Teaching Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
280
23
Paul Lauter
Contributors
303
4
Index
307