Philosophies of Sex(1st Edition) Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite by Gary Williams, ReneeBergland Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2012 by Ohio State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8142-1189-2, ISBN: 0-8142-1189-5
"Philosophies of Sex: Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite is the first collection of critical studies of Julia Ward Howe’s long-secret novel that, since its initial publication in 2004, has caused a seismic shift in how we understand gender awareness and sexuality in antebellum America. Howe figures in the history of the nineteenth-century American literature primarily as a poet, most famous for having written the lyrics to “Battle Hymn ..."
The National Uncanny(1st Edition) Indian Ghosts and American Subjects (Reencounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas) by Renee L. Bergland, RenãE L. Bregland Paperback, 211 Pages, Published 2000 by Dartmouth ISBN-13: 978-0-87451-944-0, ISBN: 0-87451-944-6
"Although spectral Indians appear with startling frequency in US literary works, until now the implications of describing them as ghosts have not been thoroughly investigated. In the first years of nationhood, Philip Freneau and Sarah Wentworth Morton peopled their works with Indian phantoms, as did Charles Brocken Brown, Washington Irving, Samuel Woodworth, Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, William Apess, Nathaniel Hawthorne, an ..."
"This companion to America?s greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies. Covers biographical approaches of Dickinson, the historical, political and cultural contexts of her work, and its critical reception over the years Considers issues relating to the different formats in which Dickinson?s lyrics have been published ? manuscript, print, halft ..."
"New England blossomed in the nineteenth century, producing a crop of distinctively American writers along with distinguished philosophers and jurists, abolitionists and scholars. A few of the female stars of this eraEmily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller, and Susan B. Anthony, for instanceare still appreciated, but there are a number of intellectual women whose crucial roles in the philosophical, social, and scientific debates that roiled t ..."