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Title: Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and About Women in America, 1820-70 by Nina Baym ISBN: 0-252-06285-X Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: February, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Pioneering and path-breaking study
Comment: Nina Baym's pioneering study paved the way for the recovery of nineteenth-century American women novelists, writers who were "disappeared" by literary critics in the first half of the twentieth century intent on creating a pantheon of American literature peopled only by male writers (with the exception of Emily Dickinson). Indeed, Nina Baym is one of the "founding mothers" of scholarship on nineteenth-century women writers. Along with scholars such as Judith Fetterley, Marjorie Pryse, Sharon Harris, Mary Kelley, Nancy Cott and others, she inspired invigorating, exciting scholarship in this "new field" more than twenty years ago. Many novels from the nineteenth century have been reprinted by Rutgers University PRess and Oxford University PRess as a result of Baym's efforts.
WOMAN'S FICTION is a fascinating, compelling study not only of the kinds of novels women wrote but also of WHY women in the nineteenth century wrote. Baym chronicles these writers often complicated view about womanhood in nineteenth-century America. Indeed, she provides a more complex picture of AMerican literary history in the nineteenth-century, one that includes much more than THE SCARLET LETTER and MOBY-DICK. Although many other similar studies have been written since WOMAN'S FICTION was first published (studies that rightly challenge several of Baym's assertions), it is still a vital and important work in the study of American literature in general and nineteenth-century women writers in particular.
And contrary to the other review, WOMAN'S FICTION is NOT rambling and incoherent, nor "a student nightmare." This former student was so inspired after reading WOMAN'S FICTION when she was an undergraduate, that she went on to get a Ph.D. in American literature, specializing in nineteenth-century American women writers, and became an Assistant Professor of English.
WOMAN'S FICTION is a fascinating read for ANYONE interested in American women's writing.
Rating: 1
Summary: Horrible
Comment: Forced to read in college. Absolutely incoherent ramblings. Terrible writing, astrocious editing and poor research make this book a professor's dream and a student's nightmare.
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Title: The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas ISBN: 0374525587 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 30 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner, Jane Tompkins ISBN: 0935312668 Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 by Jane Tompkins ISBN: 0195041194 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1986 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Lamplighter (American Women Writers) by Maria S. Cummins, Nina Baym ISBN: 0813513332 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing by Dale M. Bauer, Philip Gould ISBN: 0521669758 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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