"The Morgesons" and Other Writings, Published and Unpublished

Stoddard, Elizabeth / Lawrence Buell and Sandra A. Zagarell -- (editors)

ISBN 10: 0812211707 / ISBN 13: 9780812211702

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, U.S.A., 1996

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Trade Paperback -- Good -- Other than tape pull to back cover, book is clean and tight -- 359 pages ---.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: "The Morgesons" and Other Writings, Published and Unpublished
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812211707
• ISBN 13: 9780812211702
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

"Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."—from the Introduction

The centerpiece of this volume is The Morgesons (1862), one of the few outstanding feminist bildungsromanae of that century. Additional selections include arresting short stories and provocative journalistic essays/reviews, plus a number of letters and manuscript journals that have never before been published. The texts are fully edited and documented.

About the Author

Elizabeth Stoddard (1823-1902) is most widely known today as the author of The Morgesons (1862), her first of three novels. Her two other novels are Two Men (1865) and Temple House (1867). Stoddard was also a prolific writer of short stories, children's tales, poems, essays, travel writing, and journalism pieces. Lawrence Buell is the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University and the author of many books, including Emerson (2003) and The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005), Sandra A. Zagarell is Donald R. Longman Professor of English at Oberlin College. Essays of hers have appeared widely in edited volumes and journals, and she is the senior editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 4th edition.