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A study, with the actual accounts, of early American women's travel writings. Together these records and the editor's analysis, challenge assumptions ... More

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In Writing Home, Mary Suzanne Schriber offers the first comprehensive analysis of the large body of U.S. women's travel literature written between ... More

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Susanna Rowson--novelist, actress, playwright, poet, school founder, and early national celebrity—bears little resemblance to the title character ... More

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New approaches to women writers and attitudes to women in the Romantic period, principally focused on North America.

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Milcah Martha Moore (1740-1829) lived and flourished in the Philadelphia area during its peak, when it was the center of commerce, politics, social ... More

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For a long time, the American West was mainly identified with white masculinity, but as more women's narratives of westward expansion came to light, ... More

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The black and white women travel writers whom Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman investigates in "Traveling Economies "astonish modern readers with their ... More

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Mastrangelo uses a feminist framework to show a rich tradition of progressive teaching and writing practices. She emphasizes the work of early ... More

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Examining works by Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar, this innovative book frames black women's aesthetic sensibilities ... More

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In Writing Home, Mary Suzanne Schriber offers the first comprehensive analysis of the large body of U.S. women's travel literature written between ... More

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A fascinating exploration of the lives and works of two dozen American, English, and French women, whose talent helped shape the Paris expatriate ... More

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An illuminating portrait of the writers who dominated New York intellectual life from the 1930s through the 1960s--and of a complex tangle of ... More

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Kelley explores the lives and careers of 12 popular nineteenth-century women authors--including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Maria Sedgwick, and Susan ... More

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This collection of 16 essays discusses the broad relationship of women poets to the American literary tradition

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"Taking into account their multiple loyalties, this book explores how these Jewish women created their own space and how we interpret their ... More

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Because feminist scholarship is thriving in the field of colonial American studies, this volume is timely. It showcases new feminist perspectives on ... More

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What is lesbian literature? Must it contain overtly lesbian characters, and portray them in a positive light? Must the author be overtly (or covertly ... More

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Includes annotated entries for anthologies, critical studies, reference works, and plays by contemporary African American women dramatists.

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Beginning in the 1980s, a number of popular and influential anthologies organized around themes of shared identity--"Nice Jewish Girls," "This Bridge ... More

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Feminist science fiction pioneer Marleen S. Barr, together with a talented crew of the field's established and emerging theorists, reveal new ... More

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"Traces of a Stream" offers a unique scholarly perspective that merges interests in rhetorical and literacy studies, United States social and ... More

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The only book-length study of Toni Morrison's work to discuss all of her novels published to date.

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A new literary genre, the novel of ripening or Reifungsroman, reconceptualizes middle and old age for women, taking it from the former stereotypical ... More

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