{"product_id":"writing-for-immortality-women-and-the-emergence-of-high-literary-culture-in-america-paperback","title":"Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne E. Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore the Civil War, American writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Harriet Beecher Stowe had established authorship as a respectable profession for women. But though they had written some of the most popular and influential novels of the century, they accepted the taboo against female writers, regarding themselves as educators and businesswomen. During and after the Civil War, some women writers began to challenge this view, seeing themselves as artists writing for themselves and for posterity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting for Immortality\u003c\/i\u003e studies the lives and works of four prominent members of the first generation of American women who strived for recognition as serious literary artists: Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Constance Fenimore Woolson. Combining literary criticism and cultural history, Anne E. Boyd examines how these authors negotiated the masculine connotation of \"artist,\" imagining a space for themselves in the literary pantheon. Redrawing the boundaries between male and female literary spheres, and between American and British literary traditions, Boyd shows how these writers rejected the didacticism of the previous generation of women writers and instead drew their inspiration from the most prominent \"literary\" writers of their day: Emerson, James, Barrett Browning, and Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlacing the works and experiences of Alcott, Phelps, Stoddard, and Woolson within contemporary discussions about \"genius\" and the \"American artist,\" Boyd reaches a sobering conclusion. Although these women were encouraged by the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts, they were equally discouraged by lingering prejudices about their applicability to women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWriting for Immortality\u003c\/i\u003e studies the lives and works of four prominent members of the first generation of American women who strived for recognition as serious literary artists: Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Constance Fenimore Woolson. Combining literary criticism and cultural history, Anne E. Boyd redraws the boundaries between male and female literary spheres and between American and British literary traditions. She shows how these writers rejected the didacticism of the previous generation of women writers and instead drew their inspiration from the most prominent literary writers of their day: Emerson, James, Barrett Browning, and Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlacing the works and experiences of Alcott, Phelps, Stoddard, and Woolson within contemporary discussions about genius and the American artist, Boyd reaches a sobering conclusion. Although these women were encouraged by the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts, they were equally discouraged by lingering prejudices about their applicability to women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRadically expands the literary world of nineteenth-century American women, considering them in conversation with European women writers as well as male writers in Europe and America.--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoyd's close textual work gives the reader a valuable introduction to the work and lives of these four authors.--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA highly satisfying analysis of the contexts within which women's literary ambitions shifted and the sensibilities of the male literary elite were forcefully challenged.--\u003ci\u003eTulsa Studies in Women's Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell written and appealingly produced, it is a thoughtful contribution to the field of late-nineteenth century American literature and to the women, men, and above all institutions that produced it.-- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Realism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--Lawrence Buell, Harvard University \"American Literary Realism\"\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting for Immortality\u003c\/i\u003e studies the lives and works of four prominent members of the first generation of American women who strived for recognition as serious literary artists: Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Constance Fenimore Woolson. Combining literary criticism and cultural history, Anne E. Boyd redraws the boundaries between male and female literary spheres and between American and British literary traditions. She shows how these writers rejected the didacticism of the previous generation of women writers and instead drew their inspiration from the most prominent \"literary\" writers of their day: Emerson, James, Barrett Browning, and Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlacing the works and experiences of Alcott, Phelps, Stoddard, and Woolson within contemporary discussions about \"genius\" and the \"American artist,\" Boyd reaches a sobering conclusion. Although these women were encouraged by the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts, they were equally discouraged by lingering prejudices about their applicability to women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Radically expands the literary world of nineteenth-century American women, considering them in conversation with European women writers as well as male writers in Europe and America.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Boyd's close textual work gives the reader a valuable introduction to the work and lives of these four authors.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A highly satisfying analysis of the contexts within which women's literary ambitions shifted and the sensibilities of the male literary elite were forcefully challenged.\"--\u003ci\u003eTulsa Studies in Women's Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Well written and appealingly produced, it is a thoughtful contribution to the field of late-nineteenth century American literature and to the women, men, and above all institutions that produced it.\"-- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Realism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne E. Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of English and women's studies at the University of New Orleans and editor of \u003ci\u003eWielding the Pen: Writings on Authorship by American Women of the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Johns Hopkins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 326\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757479624992,"sku":"9780801894015","price":61.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b7622c66b50a73fa3c785030e4d46ef3.webp?v=1780104097","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/writing-for-immortality-women-and-the-emergence-of-high-literary-culture-in-america-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}