"Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."—from the Introduction
The centerpiece of this volume is The Morgesons (1862), one of the few outstanding feminist bildungsromanae of that century. Additional selections include arresting short stories and provocative journalistic essays/reviews, plus a number of letters and manuscript journals that have never before been published. The texts are fully edited and documented.
- ISBN10 081220560X
- ISBN13 9780812205602
- Publish Date 3 June 2011 (first published 1 June 1984)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 400
- Language English