Legacy 26:1

Legacy 26:1

Edited by Nicole Tonkovich, Jennifer S. Tuttle, and Theresa Strouth Gaul

Table Of Contents

Marriage, Coverture, and the Companionate Ideal in The Coquette and Dorval
Karen A. Weyler

"When it ceases to be silly it becomes actually wrong": The Cultural Contexts of Female Homoerotic Desire in Rose Terry Cooke's "My Visitation"
Kristin M. Comment

Constance Fenimore Woolson's Anthropology of Desire
Neill Matheson

The Milwaukee School of Fleshly Poetry: Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems of Passion and Popular Aestheticism
Angela Sorby

Framing the Body: Imperialism and Visual Discourse in María Cristina Mena's Short Fiction
Margaret A. Toth

Legacy Reprint
Less Work for "Mother": Rural Readers, Farm Papers, and the Makeover of "The Revolt of 'Mother'"
Ellen Gruber Garvey

Mothering: The Story of a Revolt
Nina Sutherland Purdy

Legacy Profile
Ann Eliza Webb Young (Denning) (1844-after 1908)
Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola

Book Reviews
Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies edited by Mary C. Carruth
Lorrayne Carroll

Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women by Marion Rust
Karen A. Weyler

Women & Children First: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives & American Identity by Robin Miskolcze
Patrick Gleason

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Casebook edited by Elizabeth Ammons
The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe by Sarah Robbins
Desirée Henderson

Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson's Poetic Development by Aliki Barnstone
Jane Donahue Eberwein

Love and Marriage in Early African America edited by Frances Smith Foster
Linda M. Grasso

Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West edited by Eric Gardner
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism by Jane F. Thrailkill
Cynthia J. Davis

America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana by Dorothy Z. Baker
Gail K. Smith

Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts by Emily J. Orlando
The Architectural Imagination of Edith Wharton: Gender, Class, and Power in the Progressive Era by Annette Benert
Maura D'Amore

Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Martha Jane Nadell

Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear: A Japanese American Memoir by Kathleen Tamagawa, edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef
Linda Trinh Moser

The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three Autobiographies by Anna Linzie
Lee Rumbarger

Legacy Bookshelf
Lisa M. Thomas