Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930

by Monika M. Elbert

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Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been ""ghettoized"" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of classroom teaching. While some of the essays pair up female and male authors who write in a similar style or with similar concerns, others address social issues shared show more by both men and women, including class tensions, economic problems, and the Ci show less

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Monika M. Elbert is a professor of English at Montclair State University, editor of Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, and coeditor of Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century and Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.

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Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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810.9Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican literature in EnglishHistory and criticism of American literature
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PS169 .G45 .S47Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureTreatment of special subjects, classes
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