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- catalog abstract ""In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century's most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley's landmark study: Maria Cummins, Caroline Howard Gilman, Caroline Lee Hentz, Mary Jane Holmes, Maria McIntosh, Sara Parton, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Virginia Terhune, Susan Warner, and Augusta Evans Wilson. These women shared more than commercial success. Collectively they created fictions that Kelley terms "literary domesticity," books that both embraced and called into question the complicated expectations shaping the lives of so many nineteenth-century women. Matured in a culture of domesticity and dismissed by a male writing establishment, they struggled to reconcile public recognition with the traditional roles of wife and mother. Drawing on the 200 volumes of published prose and on the letters, diaries, and journals of these writers, Kelley explores the tensions that accompanied their unprecedented literary success."--Google Books (re: new edition).".
- catalog contributor b432767.
- catalog created "1984.".
- catalog date "1984".
- catalog date "1984.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1984.".
- catalog description ""In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century's most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley's landmark study: Maria Cummins, Caroline Howard Gilman, Caroline Lee Hentz, Mary Jane Holmes, Maria McIntosh, Sara Parton, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Virginia Terhune, Susan Warner, and Augusta Evans Wilson. These women shared more than commercial success. Collectively they created fictions that Kelley terms "literary domesticity," books that both embraced and called into question the complicated expectations shaping the lives of so many nineteenth-century women. Matured in a culture of domesticity and dismissed by a male writing establishment, they struggled to reconcile public recognition with the traditional roles of wife and mother. Drawing on the 200 volumes of published prose and on the letters, diaries, and journals of these writers, Kelley explores the tensions that accompanied their unprecedented literary success."--Google Books (re: new edition).".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "pt. I. Peculiar circumstances: 1. The Fanny Fern. 2. Fame never was. 3. The season of instruction. 4. Rights of the mind, duties to the sphere -- pt. II. The notice of the world: 5. Secret writers. 6. No happy woman writes. 7. Buying my time. 8. A man's clothing -- pt. III. Warfare within: 9. The crisis of domesticity : a crisis of being. 10. The great question of moral life. 11. Preachers of the fictional page. 12. A right regard for womanhood : a word or two on all sides.".
- catalog extent "xx, 409 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Private woman, public stage.".
- catalog identifier "0195033515 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Private woman, public stage.".
- catalog issued "1984".
- catalog issued "1984.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Private woman, public stage.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 19th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Authorship Sex differences History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Domestic fiction, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS374.W6 K4 1984".
- catalog subject "Popular literature United States History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Privacy in literature.".
- catalog subject "Public opinion in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sex role in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women Books and reading United States.".
- catalog subject "Women United States Books and reading.".
- catalog subject "Women United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women United States Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women authors, American 19th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women authors, American Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Peculiar circumstances: 1. The Fanny Fern. 2. Fame never was. 3. The season of instruction. 4. Rights of the mind, duties to the sphere -- pt. II. The notice of the world: 5. Secret writers. 6. No happy woman writes. 7. Buying my time. 8. A man's clothing -- pt. III. Warfare within: 9. The crisis of domesticity : a crisis of being. 10. The great question of moral life. 11. Preachers of the fictional page. 12. A right regard for womanhood : a word or two on all sides.".
- catalog title "Private woman, public stage : literary domesticity in nineteenth-century America / Mary Kelley.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".