
Challenging Boundaries
Gender and Periodization
University of Georgia Press
Published on 1. April 2017
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-8203-5217-6 (ISBN)
Description
What if the American literary canon were expanded to consistently represent women writers, who do not always fit easily into genres and periods established on the basis of men's writings? How would the study of American literature benefit from this long-needed revision? This timely collection of essays by fourteen women writers breaks new ground in American literary study. Not content to rediscover and awkwardly "fit" female writers into the "white male" scheme of anthologies and college courses, editors Margaret Dickie and Joyce W. Warren question the current boundaries of literary periods, advocating a revised literary canon. The essays consider a wide range of American women writers, including Mary Rowlandson, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Frances Harper, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Amy Lowell and Adrienne Rich, discussing how the present classification of these writers by periods affects our reading of their work.
Beyond the focus of feminist challenges to American literary periodization, this volume also studies issues of a need for literary reforms considering differences in race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. The essays are valuable and informative as individual critical studies of specific writers and their works. Challenging Boundaries presents intelligent, original, well-written, and practical arguments in support of long-awaited changes in American literary scholarship and is a milestone of feminist literary study.
Beyond the focus of feminist challenges to American literary periodization, this volume also studies issues of a need for literary reforms considering differences in race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. The essays are valuable and informative as individual critical studies of specific writers and their works. Challenging Boundaries presents intelligent, original, well-written, and practical arguments in support of long-awaited changes in American literary scholarship and is a milestone of feminist literary study.
Reviews / Votes
Keenly relevant essays that speak to one of the most enduring-and provocative-critical issues in the study of literature. -- Linda Wagner-Martin * author of <i>Flavored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family</i> *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Georgia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8203-5217-6 (9780820352176)
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Persons
Joyce W. Warren (Editor)
JOYCE W. WARREN (1935-2017) was a professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York.
Margaret Dickie (Editor)
MARGARET DICKIE was the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia.
JOYCE W. WARREN (1935-2017) was a professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York.
Margaret Dickie (Editor)
MARGARET DICKIE was the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia.