Recovers the careers of four US women serial writers, and establishes a new archive for American literary studies.

This study proposes interpretive strategies for nineteenth-century American women's novels. Harris contends that women in the nineteenth century read subversive

This reissue of the pioneering and standard book on antebellum women's domestic novels contains a new introduction situating the book in the context of importan

A convenient handbook of dates, names, terms, and resources as well as a highly readable overview of the pivotal role of women in a century of profound politica