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Literature
1. Baym Nina. Woman’s Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and About Women in America, 1820-1870. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. Discusses significant female writers whose careers flourished with the popularity of women’s fiction through the first half of the nineteenth century and suggests reasons for the waning of their popularity. 1978.
2. Davidson Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. New York: Oxford University Press. This landmark study argues that American fiction arose from a crisis of identity and authority in a new nation. Explains how eighteenth and nineteenth century women used novels to explore lifestyles. 1986.
3. Fairbanks Carol. Prairie Women: Images in American and Canadian Fiction. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. Traces literature through generations of prairie women, from the first wave of settlers to more recent writers. More than one hundred twenty works by sixty-six authors (thirty-two from the United States and thirty-four from Canada) constitute a unique tradition separate from the male prairie myths of writers such as James Fenimore Cooper and Hamlin Garland. 1986.
4. Gilbert Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. No Man’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. 3 vols. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. Explores the effects that changing gender roles have had on literary portrayals of women in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. 1988.
5. Hutcheon Linda. The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction. Toronto: Oxford University Press. This intriguing study of post-World War II Canadian fiction discusses female writers and portrayals of the feminine in Canadian writing. 1988.
6. Ling Amy. Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry. New York: Pergamon Press. Ling argues that American women writers of Chinese ancestry create more authentic stories than their male counterparts. Provides an annotated bibliography of works published in North America by women of Chinese ancestry. 1990.
7. Tompkins, Jane P. Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Argues that while many domestic and sentimental novels have been judged aesthetically weak, most were not written for art’s sake but to transmit social messages. Tompkins explains social conditions producing these works and discusses their reception.
8. Washington Mary Helen. Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. The general introduction to this collection—“‘The Darkened Eye Restored’: Notes Toward a Literary History of Black Women”—claims a literary tradition for African American women that is separate from that of black men. 1987.
9. Yellin, Jean Fagan. The Intricate Knot: Black Figures in American Literature, 1776-1863. New York: New York University Press. Discusses representations of black male and female characters in black-authored and white-authored literature of the time period. The discussion of female slave narratives is especially significant. 1972.