Contents

• Introduction / Dale M. Bauer and Philip Gould
• Pt. 1. Historical and theoretical background. 1. The postcolonial culture of early American women’s writing / Rosemarie Zagarri. 2. Women in public / Dana D. Nelson. 3. Antebellum politics and women’s writing / Stephanie A. Smith
• Pt. 2. Genre, tradition, and innovation. 4. Captivity and the literary imagination / Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola. 5. Nineteenth-century American women’s poetry / Elizabeth Petrino. 6. Women at war / Shirley Samuels. 7. Women, anti-Catholicism, and narrative in nineteenth-century America / Susan Griffin. 8. Immigration and assimilation in nineteenth-century US women’s writing / Priscilla Wald
• Pt. 3. Case studies. 9. The uses of writing in Margaret Bayard Smith’s new nation / Fredrika J. Teute. 10. The sentimental novel: the example of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Gail K. Smith. 11. African- American women’s spiritual narratives / Yolanda Pierce. 12. The postbellum reform writings of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps / Lisa A. Long. 13. "Strenuous Artistry": Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons / Sandra A. Zagarell. 14. Minnie’s Sacrifice: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s narrative of citizenship / Farah Jasmine Griffin
• Conclusion / Mary Kelley