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| Genre/Form: | Biography Criticism, interpretation, etc History Biographies |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kelley, Mary, 1943- Private woman, public stage. New York : Oxford University Press, 1984 (OCoLC)562936302 |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Kelley |
| ISBN: | 0195033515 9780195033519 019503581X 9780195035810 |
| OCLC Number: | 9853744 |
| Description: | xx, 409 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | pt. I. Peculiar circumstances: 1. The Fanny Fern. 2. Fame never was. 3. The season of instruction. 4. Rights of the mind, duties to the sphere -- pt. II. The notice of the world: 5. Secret writers. 6. No happy woman writes. 7. Buying my time. 8. A man's clothing -- pt. III. Warfare within: 9. The crisis of domesticity : a crisis of being. 10. The great question of moral life. 11. Preachers of the fictional page. 12. A right regard for womanhood : a word or two on all sides. |
| Responsibility: | Mary Kelley. |
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"Enriches our understanding of women's history and of American social and intellectual history. Kelley brilliantly integrates recent historical scholarship on a multitude of subjects."--The Women's Review of Books"Fascinating....Provocative and challenging."--Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, The New York Times Book Review"Kelley transforms our understanding of American women and of American literature in the nineteenth century....A major contribution."--Linda Kerber, University of Iowa"A long overdue reassessment of the neglected and misunderstood 'literary domestics.'"--Journal of American History"An ambitious, comprehensive, widely researched, and well-documented book on the phenomenon of the popular female fiction writer in mid-nineteenth-century America."--American Quarterly"The most ambitious study of these writers to date."--American Historical Review"A sensitive, insightful, well-researched book, and an important contribution to both women's studies and American literary history."--American Studies"A stunning achievement....This book will immediately put Mary Kelley among the best historians of women in this country."--Carl N. Degler, Stanford University"Beautifully written...exhibiting a wide frame of reference...[Her] book not only stimulates but also makes a complex subject both easy and delightful to assimilate."--Saturday Review"The beauty of Private Woman, Public Stage is its artful merging of U.S. history, women's history, and literature. The book makes an important contribution to the continuing development of women's history."--Choice "Enriches our understanding of women's history and of American social and intellectual history. Kelley brilliantly integrates recent historical scholarship on a multitude of subjects."--The Women's Review of Books "Fascinating....Provocative and challenging."--Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, The New York Times Book Review "Kelley transforms our understanding of American women and of American literature in the nineteenth century....A major contribution."--Linda Kerber, University of Iowa "A long overdue reassessment of the neglected and misunderstood 'literary domestics.'"--Journal of American History "An ambitious, comprehensive, widely researched, and well-documented book on the phenomenon of the popular female fiction writer in mid-nineteenth-century America."--American Quarterly "The most ambitious study of these writers to date."--American Historical Review "A sensitive, insightful, well-researched book, and an important contribution to both women's studies and American literary history."--American Studies "A stunning achievement....This book will immediately put Mary Kelley among the best historians of women in this country."--Carl N. Degler, Stanford University "Beautifully written...exhibiting a wide frame of reference...[Her] book not only stimulates but also makes a complex subject both easy and delightful to assimilate."--Saturday Review "The beauty of Private Woman, Public Stage is its artful merging of U.S. history, women's history, and literature. The book makes an important contribution to the continuing development of women's history."--Choice "Enriches our understanding of women's history and of American social and intellectual history. Kelley brilliantly integrates recent historical scholarship on a multitude of subjects."--The Women's Review of Books "Fascinating....Provocative and challenging."--Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, The New York Times Book Review "Kelley transforms our understanding of American women and of American literature in the nineteenth century....A major contribution."--Linda Kerber, University of Iowa "A long overdue reassessment of the neglected and misunderstood 'literary domestics.'"--Journal of American History "An ambitious, comprehensive, widely researched, and well-documented book on the phenomenon of the popular female fiction writer in mid-nineteenth-century America."--American Quarterly "The most ambitious study of these writers to date."--American Historical Review "A sensitive, insightful, well-researched book, and an important contribution to both women's studies and American literary history."--American Studies "A stunning achievement....This book will immediately put Mary Kelley among the best historians of women in this country."--Carl N. Degler, Stanford University "Beautifully written...exhibiting a wide frame of reference...[Her] book not only stimulates but also makes a complex subject both easy and delightful to assimilate."--Saturday Review "The beauty of Private Woman, Public Stage is its artful merging of U.S. history, women's history, and literature. The book makes an important contribution to the continuing development of women's history."--Choice "Enriches our understanding of women's history and of American social and intellectual history. Kelley brilliantly integrates recent historical scholarship on a multitude of subjects."--The Women's Review of Books"Fascinating....Provocative and challenging."--Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, The New York Times Book Review"Kelley transforms our understanding of American women and of American literature in the nineteenth century....A major contribution."--Linda Kerber, University of Iowa"A long overdue reassessment of the neglected and misunderstood 'literary domestics.'"--Journal of American History"An ambitious, comprehensive, widely researched, and well-documented book on the phenomenon of the popular female fiction writer in mid-nineteenth-century America."--American Quarterly"The most ambitious study of these writers to date."--American Historical Review"A sensitive, insightful, well-researched book, and an important contribution to both women's studies and American literary history."--American Studies"A stunning achievement....This book will immediately put Mary Kelley among the best historians of women in this country."--Carl N. Degler, Stanford University"Beautifully written...exhibiting a wide frame of reference...[Her] book not only stimulates but also makes a complex subject both easy and delightful to assimilate."--Saturday Review"The beauty of Private Woman, Public Stage is its artful merging of U.S. history, women's history, and literature. The book makes an important contribution to the continuing development of women's history."--Choice Read more...
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