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Private Woman, Public Stage

Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America
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How best-selling women novelists coped with fame in a man's world; 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. 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. In a new preface, she discusses the explosion in the scholarship on writing women since the original 1984 publication of Private Woman, Public Stage and reflects on the book's ongoing relevance.

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Mary Kelley is Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Among her most recent books are The Portable Margaret Fuller and The Power of Her Sympathy: The Autobiography and Journal of Catharine Maria Sedgwick.
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September 30th, 2002
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  • General (US: Trade)
  • Undergraduate
Edition
New edition
Pages
432
Dimensions
156x235x26
ISBN-13
9780807854228
Product ID
6281962

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