Legacy 23:2

Legacy 23:2

Edited by Nicole Tonkovich, Dawn Keetley, and Jennifer S. Tuttle

Table Of Contents

Charlene Avallone
Catharine Sedgwick and the Circles of New York 

Laurie Ousley
The Business of Housekeeping: The Mistress, the Domestic Worker, and the Construction of Class

Carey R. Voeller
"I have not told half we suffered": Overland Trail Women's Narratives and the Genre of Suppressed Textual Mourning

Mary McCartin Wearn
Subjection and Subversion in Sarah Piatt's Poetics 

Jennifer Parchesky
Adapting Stella Dallas: Class Boundaries, Consumerism, and Hierarchies of Taste

Book Reviews

Joanna Brooks
Executing Race: Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law by Sharon M. Harris

Lisa M. Vetere
Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814 by Karen A. Weyler

Jane F. Thrailkill
Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture by Karen Sánchez-Eppler 

Lucille M. Schultz
Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth Century by Sarah Robbins

Gregory Eiselein
Our Sisters' Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women edited by Jill Bergman and Debra Bernardi 

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
The "Tragic Mulatta" Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction by Eva Allegra Raimon; The Mulatta and the Politics of Race by Teresa C. Zackodnik  

Kenneth Salzer
Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850-1877 by Linda Frost

Lara Langer Cohen
Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900 by Jennifer Mason

Lori Merish
Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920 by Melanie Dawson

Victoria Lamont
Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900-1936 by Cathryn Halverson  

Jamie Lee Parmalee and Cindy Montgomery Webb
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