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Acknowledgments
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The Conversation of ``The Whole Family'': Gender, Politics, and Aesthetics in Literary Tradition
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26
Karen L. Kilcup
GENDERED GENEALOGIES
Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick: A Dialogue on Race, Culture, and Gender
27
21
Susanne Opfermann
Reconstructing Literary Genealogies: Frances E. W. Harper's and William Dean Howells's Race Novels
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19
M. Giulia Fabi
Was Tom White? Stowe's Dred and Twain's Pudd'nbead Wilson
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15
Judie Newman
Shaped by Readers: The Slave Narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs
82
17
Stephen Matterson
GENRE MATTERS
Body Politics and the Body Politic in William Wells Brown's Clotel and Harriet Wilson's Our Nig
99
24
R. J. Ellis
Wild Semantics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Feminization of Edgar Allan Poe's Arabesque Aesthetics
123
18
Gabriele Rippl
Deepening Hues to Local Color: George Washington Cable and Sarah Barnwell Elliott
141
26
Aranzazu Usandizaga
DEVELOPING DIALOGUES
Sister Carrie and The Awakening: The Clothed, the Unclothed, and the Woman Undone
167
17
Janet Beer
Ladies Prefer Bonds: Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and the Money Novel
184
18
Claire Preston
Mining the West:Bret Harte and Mary Hallock Foote
202
17
Janet Floyd
My Banker and I Can Afford to Laugh! Class and Gender in Fanny Fern and Nathaniel Hawthorne
219
20
Alison M. J. Easton
TRANSFORMING TRADITIONS
Body/Rituals: The (Homo) Erotics of Death in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Rose Terry Cooke, and Edgar Allan Poe
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23
Ralph J. Poole
The Five Million Women of My Race: Negotiations of Gender in W.E.B. Du Bois and Anna Julia Cooper
262
19
Hanna Wallinger
Woman Thinking: Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the American Scholar
281
25
Lindsey Traub
How Conscious Could Consciousness Grow? Emily Dickinson and William James
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Susan Manning
Contributors
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Index
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