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Transatlantic Footholds: Turn-of-the-Century American Women Writers and British Reviewers book cover

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Transatlantic Footholds Turn-of-the-Century American Women Writers and British Reviewers

By Stephanie Palmer Copyright 2020
228 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Transatlantic Footholds: Turn-of-the-Century American Women Writers and British Reviewers analyses British reviews of American women fiction writers, essayists and poets between the periods of literary domesticity and modernism. The book demonstrates that a variety of American women writers were intelligently read in Britain during this era. British reviewers read American women as literary... Read more

Introduction

1. American Women's Books in the British Literary Marketplace

2. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Foothold in Britain

3. Readings of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman in and beyond the "English Craze"

4. Eyes to See Them:British Responses to Native Americans in the Works of Helen Hunt Jackson and Zitkala-Ša

5. Touching the Chords: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her British Fans

6. The Customs of that Other Country: Reading Edith Wharton in Britain

Epilogue

Selected Bibliography

Biography

Stephanie Palmer is Senior Lecturer of Nineteenth Century American Literature at Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, United Kingdom. She is the author of Together by Accident: American Local Color Literature and the Middle Class (2009) and articles in Symbiosis, Studies in Travel Writing, Women's Writing, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Arizona Quarterly, Pedagogy, and the essay collection, Transatlantic Conversations (2017).

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