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Transcending the new woman multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era / by Rich, Charlotte J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The New Woman and progressive America -- Suffragist or "squaw"? …”
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Portraits of the new Negro woman visual and literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance / by Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…"A plea for color" : Nella Larsen's textual tableaux -- Jessie Fauset's new Negro woman artist and the passing market -- "Black beauty betrayed" : the modernist mulatta in black and white -- The geography of the mulatta in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Redressing the new Negro woman.…”
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Spinster tales and womanly possibilities by Rosenthal, Naomi Braun, 1940-

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Reconstructing womanhood : the emergence of the Afro-American woman novelist / by Carby, Hazel V.

Tomorrow is another day the woman writer in the South, 1859-1936 / by Jones, Anne Goodwyn

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Plain and ugly Janes the rise of the ugly woman in contemporary American fiction / by Wright, Charlotte M.

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Beyond the Gibson Girl reimagining the American new woman, 1895-1915 / by Patterson, Martha H., 1966-

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Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /

Table of Contents: “…Surviving the colonialist legacy of the Klondike Gold Rush : a native woman elder's liberatory and integrative storytelling turn /…”
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The coupling convention sex, text, and tradition in Black women's fiction / by DuCille, Ann

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Chick lit and postfeminism by Harzewski, Stephanie, 1974-

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Romances of the republic women, the family, and violence in the literature of the early American nation / by Samuels, Shirley

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The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / by Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

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Dinarzad's children an anthology of contemporary Arab American fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Shaping identities: Lost in freakin' Yonkers / Randa Jarrar -- He had dreamed of returning / Pauline Kaldas -- First snow / Khaled Mattawa -- The fifty-foot woman / Nabeel Abraham -- The Lebanon-Detroit Express / Alia Yunis -- The American way / Frances Khirallah Noble.…”
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Dead women talking figures of injustice in American literature / by Norman, Brian, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Dead woman wailing: Edgar Allan Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher" -- Dead woman dictating: Henry James's The turn of the screw -- Dead woman rotting: William Faulkner's As I lay dying -- Dead woman cursing: Alice Walker's In search of our mothers' gardens -- Dead woman wanting: Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Dead woman heckling: Tony Kushner's Angels in America -- Dead women gossiping: Randall Kenan's Let the dead bury their dead -- Dead women healing: Ana Castillo's So far from God -- Dead woman coming of age: Alice Sebold's The lovely bones -- Dead woman singing: Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting mother's body -- When dead women don't talk: Maxine Hong Kingston's "No name woman".…”
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Reforming the world social activism and the problem of fiction in nineteenth-century America / by Sánchez, María Carla, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The devil and his angels -- The panic of 1837 and the failures of literary men -- Sentimentalizing the fallen woman -- Making history with Child and Stowe -- Saying goodbye to Timothy Shay Arthur.…”
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Creating the preacher's authority -- The slow rise of novel in America -- The radical Protestant preaching of George Lippard -- Secularizing the sermon in The scarlet letter -- Playing preacher in Moby-Dick -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's cabin -- The borrowed sermons of Clotel; or, the President's daughter.…”
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel / by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Creating the preacher's authority -- The slow rise of novel in America -- The radical Protestant preaching of George Lippard -- Secularizing the sermon in The scarlet letter -- Playing preacher in Moby-Dick -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's cabin -- The borrowed sermons of Clotel; or, the President's daughter.…”
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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice -- The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing -- In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille -- Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections" -- Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative -- Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf -- Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority -- Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing -- Romantic voice: the hero's text -- Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity -- African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack" -- Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman -- Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux -- (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form -- Full circle: Les Guerilleres.…”
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The fragmented female body and identity the postmodern, feminist, and multiethnic writings of Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Gayl Jones, Emma Pérez, Pa... by June, Pamela B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : multiethnic fragmentation and women's community -- The fragmented body and maternal healing : the examples of Toni Morrison's Beloved and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée -- Reliving African matrilineage : re-membering the past in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- Childhood scars and women's love in Emma Pérez's Gulf dreams and Paula Gunn Allen's The woman who owned the shadows -- The case of the missing women : chaos and the absence of women's bonds in Kathy Acker's works -- Conclusion : resistance and feminist healing.…”
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Heaven's Interpreters : Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America / by Reed, Ashley, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Writing Women's Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America -- "My Resolve is the Feminine of My Father's Oath" : Ritual Agency and Religious Language in the Early National Historical Novel -- "Unsheathe the Sword of a Strong, Unbending Will" : Sentimental Agency and the Doctrinal Work of Woman's Fiction -- "I Have Sinned against God and Myself" : Bearing Witness to Enslaved Women's Agency in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- "The Human Soul . . . …”
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