Overview :This book describes and characterizes responses of American readers to fiction in the generation before the Civil War. It is based on close ... Read More
Overview :Bodies may be currently fashionable in social and feminist theory, but their insides are not. Biological bodies always seem to drop out of d... Read More
Overview :"Women Writers of the American West, 1833 1927" recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during t... Read More
Overview :The Lamplighter was the first novel by twenty-seven-year-old Maria Susanna Cummins. It propelled her into a prominence that continued until ... Read More
Overview :This reissue of the pioneering and standard book on antebellum women's domestic novels contains a new introduction situating the book in the... Read More
Overview :During the nineteenth century, the content and institutional organization of the sciences evolved dramatically, altering the public's unders... Read More