Rediscoveries
Subtitle: American short stories by women, 1832-1916
By: Barbara H. Solomon, editor.
Contributors: Solomon, Barbara H.
Edition: First printing (1)
Publisher: Mentor
Published: 1994-01
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780451628503
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Short stories, American -- Women authors.; American fiction -- 19th century.; American fiction -- 20th century.; Women -- United States -- Fiction.
Other titles: American short stories by women, 1832-1916.
Description: This milestone volume of fiction brings together stories that changed the course of American literature as it evolved from romanticism to realism, including America's first naturalistic story. Many of these works have been out of print for more than a century, partly because they were written by women. Nathaniel Hawthorne called the authors "a damned mob of scribbling women," who dared to expose what was in their hearts, as well as their heads. The 33 stories by 21 women writers included here focus on character rather than plot and lead us into parlors, kitchens, and shops where one notices the telling details of a worn but mended carpet, the meal set before an irritable husband, or the oil spilled from a tipped lamp. Powerful emotions, important ideas, and compelling dramas occurring behind the walls of ordinary houses— particularly the struggles of the Sioux, the Chinese, and African Americans as told by minority writers—appear in these tales first published a hundred or more years ago. These selections, along with unfamiliar stories by authors such as Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton, make Rediscoveries a valuable resource and an enriched and expanded vision of our literary history. Here are the missing voices of American literature.
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Notes: "A Mentor book."
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Mrs. Washington Potts / Eliza Leslie; title: The intemperate / Lydia Sigourney; title: The quadroons / Lydia Maria Child; title: The seamstress / Harriet Beecher Stowe; title: Fanny McDermot / Catharine Maria Sedgwick; title: The angel over the right shoulder / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; title: Uncle Christopher's / Alice Cary; title: In a cellar / Harriet Prescott Spofford; title: Life in the iron mills / Rebecca Harding Davis; title: Lemorne versus Huell / Elizabeth Drew Stoddard; title: The brothers / Louisa May Alcott; title: Transcendental wild oats / Louisa May Alcott; title: How I went out to service / Louisa May Alcott; title: In the Gray Goth / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Ward); title: A mistaken charity / Mary Wilkins Freeman; title: The revolt of "mother" / Mary Wilkins Freeman; title: Louisa / Mary Wilkins Freeman; title: Miss Peck's promotion / Sarah Orne Jewett; title: Miss Esther's guest / Sarah Orne Jewett; title: The guests of Mrs. Timms / Sarah Orne Jewett; title: How Celia changed her mind / Rose Terry Cooke; title: The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: Old Mrs. Crosley / Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: Mrs. Beazley's deeds / Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: (cont.) The story of an hour / Kate Chopin; title: Madame Célestin's divorce / Kate Chopin; title: A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin; title: The pelican / Edith Wharton; title: The other two / Edith Wharton; title: Xingu / Edith Wharton; title: The soft-hearted Sioux / Zitkala-S̈a (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin); title: Its wavering image / Sui Sin Far; title: Hope deferred / Alice Dunbar-Nelson