The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: 17th through 19th Centuries » (1st Edition)

Lisa Maria Hogeland is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Hogeland, who holds a B.A. in comparative literature and a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, is the author of a groundbreaking study on the consciousness-raising novel, Feminism and Its Fictions. Mary Klages is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. She is the author of Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America.

The most comprehensive collection of U.S. Women writers ever published.

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Numerous anthologies of women's writings have been published, most of which focus on a particular time period, ethnic group, or genre. This impressive collection spans three centuries of U.S. women writers, bringing together an amazing variety of pieces-some reprinted for the first time. Edited by Hogeland (Feminism and Its Fictions) and Klages (Woeful Afflictions), who take an unabashedly feminist perspective, this work situates itself as an extension of the "feminist recovery project" of the 20th-century women's movement. It is probably most comparable with The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States but features a greater variety of known and unknown authors, while the Oxford volume emphasizes the better known. Nearly three times the size of the Oxford volume, yet covering only the 17th through 19th centuries, this first of a projected two-volume compendium provides a broad spectrum of works and includes such nonstandard sources as trial transcripts and petitions as representative of women's voices and views. Highly recommended for academic and public libraries.-Alison M. Lewis, Drexel Univ. Lib., Philadelphia Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.