Legacy 21:1

Legacy 21:1

Edited by Martha J. Cutter, Karen Dandurand, and Nicole Tonkovich

Table Of Contents

CONTENTS

Panic Fiction: Women’s Responses to Antebellum Economic Crisis
Mary Templin

“A true woman’s courage and hopefulness”: Martha W. Tyler’s A Book without a Title: or, Thrilling Events in the Life of Mira Dana (1855-56)
Judith A. Ranta

"Queer myself for good and all”: The House of Mirth and the Fictions of Lily’s Whiteness
Lori Harrison-Kahan

Harriet Monroe’s Pioneer Modernism: Nature, National Identity, and Poetry, A Magazine of Verse
Robin G. Schulze

Gendered Vision(s) in the Short Fiction of Harriet Prescott Spofford
Birgit Spengler

LEGACY PROFILE

Laura Jane Curtis Bullard (1831-1912)
Denise M. Kohn

LEGACY REPRINT

Sex, Love, Revenge, and Murder in “Away Down in Jamaica”: A Lost Short Story by Sui Sin Far (Edith Eaton)
Martha J. Cutter

“Away Down in Jamaica”
Sui Sin Far (Edith Eaton)      

BOOK REVIEWS

Writing Out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture by Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse
Donna Campbell        

Lillie Devereux Blake: Retracing a Life Erased by Grace Farrell
Deborah Gussman

Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women’s Poetry, 1800-1900 by Paula Bernat Bennett
Janet Gray

Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States by Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen
Pattie Cowell 

Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton by Diana Birchall
The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity by Jean Lee Cole
Dominika Ferens        

Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s edited by Lisa Botshon and Meredith Goldsmith
Martha Patterson

A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton edited by Carol J. Singley
Frederick Wegener

The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker by Judith A. Ranta
Lori Jacobson

She Left Nothing in Particular: The Autobiographical Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Diaries by Amy L. Wink
Lisa A. Long

Fleshing Out America: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body in American Literature, 1833-1879 by Carolyn Sorisio
Hildegard Hoeller

The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America by Amy Schrager Lang
Glenn Hendler