Women's Work
Anthology of American Literature
Published on 1. January 1994
Book
Hardback
1600 pages
978-0-07-049364-3 (ISBN)
Description
This anthology of literature by American women is arranged chronologically and covers a broad range of selections, including fiction, poetry, essays, diaries, letters, autobiographies, oratory and journalism. It covers the colonial period to the 1990s.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 163 mm
Weight
1000 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-049364-3 (9780070493643)
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Content
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672); Mary Rowlandson (1635-1678) - "The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson; Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727) - "The Journal of Madam Knight"; Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) - "The Group"; Abigail Adams (1744-1818); Phillis Wheatley; Susanna H. Rowson; Catherine Maria Sedgwick; Sojourner Truth; Caroline Stansbury Kirkland; Margaret Fuller; Sarah Payson Willis ("Fanny Fern"); Harriet Beecher Stowe; Harriet Jacobs; Susan Warner; Alice Cary; Rose Terry Cooke; Emily Dickinson; Louisa May Alcott; Constance Fenimore Woolson; Sarah Morgan; Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins; Sarah Orne Jewett; Kate Chopin; Mary Noailles Murfree; Grace Elizabeth King; Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; Sarah Pratt McLean Greene; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Edith Wharton; Mary Austin; Willa Cather; Ellen Glasgow; Amy Lowell; Gertrude Stein; Susan Glaspell; Mary Antin; Anzia Yezierska; Elinor Wylie; H.D. (Hilda Doolittle); Marianne Moore; Katherine Anne Porter; Zora Neale Hurston; Enda St. Vincent Millay; Caroline Gordon; Mari Sanoz; Louise Bogan; Meridel Le Sueur; Lillian Hellman; Eudora Welty; Elizabeth Bishop; Mary McCarthy; Tillie Olsen; Gwendolyn Brooks; Amy Clampitt; Hisaye Yamamoto; Denise Levertov; Flannery O'Connor; Maya Angelou; Anne Sexton; Adrienne Rich; Toni Morrison; Sylvia Plath; Joyce Carol Oates; Maxine Hong Kingston; Bobbie Ann Mason; Bharati Mukherjee; Louise Gluck; Alice Walker; Ann Beattie; Leslie Marmon Silko; Rita Dove; Amy Tan; Louise Erdrich.