New England Local Color Literature: A Woman's Tradition
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
New England Local Color Literature: A Woman's Tradition
By (Author) Professor Josephine Donovan
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Continuum Publishing Corporation
1st September 1998
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
810.9
Physical Properties
Paperback
158
300g
Description
A critical study of 19th century women writers of New England, (orig. pub. 1983) evaluates the originality of the group that included Harriet Beecher Stowe, Annie Fields, Rose Terry Cooke, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orner Jewett, Mary E. Wilkes [Freeman].
Author Bio
Josephine Donovan is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Maine, USA. She is the author or editor of 13 books, including Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 (2d. rev. ed., 2013), which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, After the Fall (1989), and The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics (2007, co-edited with Carol J. Adams). Her groundbreaking Feminist Theory (first published, 1985; fourth edition, 2012), which was also named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and described as the classic survey and analysis of the roots and development of feminist theory, has been translated into Chinese, Turkish, and Japanese.
