1st Edition

American Women Short Story Writers A Collection of Critical Essays

Edited By Julie Brown Copyright 1995
    398 Pages
    by Routledge

    398 Pages
    by Routledge

    This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story. The introductory chapter discusses why genre critics have ignored works by women and why feminist scholars have ignored the short story genre. Subsequent chapters discuss early stories by such authors as Lydia Maria Child and Rose Terry Cooke. Others are devoted to the influences (race, class, sexual orientation, education) that have shaped women's short fiction through the years. Women's special stylistic, formal and thematic concerns are also discussed in this study. The final essay addresses the ways our contemporary creative-writing classes are stifling the voices of emerging young female authors. The collection includes an extensive five-part bibliography.

    General Editor's Introduction
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction Julie Brown
    Literary Excellence and Social Reform: Lydia Maria Child's Ultraisms for the 1840s Bruce Mills
    Fiction as Political Discourse: Rose Terry Cooke's Antisuffrage Short Stories Sherry Lee Linkon
    Elizabeth Stoddard: An Examination of Her Work as Pivot Between Exploratory Fiction and the Modern Short Story Timothy Morris
    Who Was That Masked Woman? Gender and Form in Louisa May Alcott's Fiction Gail K. Smith Ripe Fruit: Fantastic Elements in the Short Fiction of Ellen Glasgow, Edith Wharton, and Eudora Welty Stephanie Branson
    Lady Terrorists: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Ghost Story Barbara Patrick
    Representations of Female Authorship in Turn of the Century American Magazine Fiction Ellen Gruber Garvey
    Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century Lillian Faderman
    Martha Wolfenstein's Isyls of the Grass and rhw Dilemma of Ethnic Self-Representation Barbara Shollar
    Fannie Hurst's Short Stories of Working Women--"Oats for the Woman," Sob Sister," and Contemporary Reader Responses: A meditation Susan Koppleman
    Lost
    Broders and Blurred Boundaries : Mary Austin as Storyteller Linda K. Karell
    Ritual and Renewal: Keres Tradition sin the Short Fiction of Leslie Silko A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff
    "A Revolutionary Tale": In Search of African American Women's Short Story Writing Bill Mullen
    Society and Self in Alice Walker's in Love and Trouble Dolan Hubbard
    Displaced Abjection and States of Grace: Denise Chavez's The Last of the Menu Girls Douglas Anderson
    Dorthy Parker's Perpetual Motion Ken Johnson
    The "Feminine" Short Story in America: Historicizing Epiphanies Mary Burgan
    Joyce Carol Oates: Reimagining the Masters, Or, A Woman's Place Is in Her Own Fiction Margaret Rogza
    Gender and Genre: The Case of the Novel-in-Stories Margot kelly The Great Ventriloquist Act: Gender and Voice in the Fiction Workshop Julie Brown
    Bibliography of primary Sources Susan Koppleman
    Bibliography of Secondary Sources Amy Schoenberger
    Contributors
    Index

    Biography

    Julie Brown , (PhD., University of Winsconsin-Milwaukee) is an English professor at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Oregon, where she teaches American literature, creative writing, and composition.