Plots and proposals
Subtitle: American women's fiction, 1850-90
By: Karen Tracey.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Women's rights in literature.; Courtship in literature.; Marriage in literature.; Sex role in literature.; Southern States -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: The renegotiation of marriage in nineteenth-century fiction and culture; title: Caroline Hentz's "little counterplot" in the Old South; title: Augusta Evans : ambition and the refinement of the Southern double proposal; title: Domesticating the "woman's rights woman" in Laura Curtis Bullard's and D. E. N. Southworth's Antebellum double-proposal novels; title: Courtship in the arena of Civil War : Southworth's Britomarte, the man-hater; title: Professional women and traditional wedlock : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's narrative negotiations.