American Women Short Story Writers
Subtitle: A Collection of Critical Essays (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History, and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780815335870
Subjects: Literary theory; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Social forecasting, futurology; Women Authors; American Novel And Short Story; Women As Authors (American Literature); Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
First sentence: Fifteen months after retiring from a tumultuous two-year editorship of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, Lydia Maria Child voiced astonishment over the literary success of Letters from New York (1845), a collection of journalistic transcendental essays first printed in the pages of her abolitionist newspaper.