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Below is a selected sampling of current books, articles, and dissertations relevant to the study of American women writers from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries. Prices unless otherwise indicated are for hardcover editions. Individual Authors Alcott, Louisa May Laffrado, Laura. "'How Could You Leave Me Alone When the Room Was Full of Men?': Gender and Self-Representation in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches. ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 48 (2002): 71-95. Barnes, Djuna Veltman, Laura J. "'The Bible Lies the One Way, but the Night-Gown the Other': Dr. Matthew OConnor, Confession, and Gender in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood." Modern Fiction Studies 49 (2003): 204-27. Bethune, Mary McLeod Hanson, Joyce A. Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2003. 256 pp. $32.50. Bristow, Gwen Lewis, Nghana. "She'll Take Her Stand: Gwen Bristow's Neo-Agrarianism and Visions of Modernity." Mississippi Quarterly 56 (2002-3): 77-104. Cather, Willa Chaput, Catherine. "Democracy, Capitalism, and the Ambivalence of Willa Cather's Frontier Rhetorics: Uncertain Foundations of the U.S. Public University System." College English 66 (2004): 310-34. Child, Lydia Maria Nerad, Julie Cary. "Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper." American Literature 75 (2003): 813-41. Chopin, Kate Stein, Allen. "The Kaleidoscope of Truth: A New Look at Chopin's 'The Storm.'" American Literary Realism 36 (2003): 51-64. Dargan, Olive Tilford Ackerman, Kathy Cantley. The Heart of Revolution: The Radical Life and Novels of Olive Dargan. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2004. 232 pp. $29.95. Davis, Rebecca Harding Miller, Jeffrey W. "'A Desolate, Shabby Home': [End Page 259] Rebecca Harding Davis, Margret Howth, and Domestic Ideology." ATQ 17 (2003): 259-78. Dickinson, Emily Heginbotham, Eleanor Elson. Reading the Fascicles of Emily Dickinson: Dwelling in Possibilities. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2003. 300 pp. $47.95 /$9.95 CD. McCromack, Jerusha Hull. "Domesticating Delphi: Emily Dickinson and the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph." American Quarterly 55 (2003): 569-601. Pollak, Viviam R., ed. A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson. New York: Oxford UP, 2004. 240 pp. $50.00 /$19.95 paper. Doolittle, Hilda Friedman, Susan Stanford, ed. Analyzing Freud: Letters of H. D., Bryher, and Their Circle. New York: New Directions, 2002. 615 pp. $39.95. Dye, Eva Emery Browne, Sheri Bartlett. Eva Emery Dye: Romance with the West. Corvallis: Oregon State UP, 2004. 192 pp. $24.95 paper. Frankenstein, Irma Rosenthal Steinberg, Ellen FitzSimmons. Irma: A Chicago Woman's Story, 1871-1966. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2004. 252 pp. $49.95 /$19.95 paper. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Knight, Denise D. "'Only a Husband's Opinion': Walter Stetson's View of Gilman's 'The Yellow Wall-Paper'—An Inscription." American Literary Realism 36 (2003): 86-87. Van Wienen, Mark W. "A Rose by Any Other Name: Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman) and the Case for American Reform Socialism." American Quarterly 55 (2003): 603-34. Harper, Frances See Nerad on Child. Hopkins, Pauline Knadler, Stephen. "Traumatized Racial Performativity: Passing in Nineteenth-Century African-American Testimonies." Cultural Critique 55 (2003): 63-100. Hurston, Zora Neale Croft, Robert W. A Zora Neale Hurston Companion. Westport: Greenwood P, 2002. 256 pp. $74.95. Rieger, Christopher. "The Working-Class Pastoral of Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee." Mississippi Quarterly 56 (2002-3): 105-24. Jackson, Helen Hunt Irwin, Robert McKee. "Ramona and Postnationalist American Studies: On 'Our America' and the Mexican Borderlands." American Quarterly 55 (2003): 539-67. Jacobs, Harriet King, Lovalerie. "Counter-Discourses on the Racialization of Theft and Ethics in Douglass's Narrative and Jacobs's Incidents." MELUS 28.4 (2003): 55-82. Taylor, Douglas. "From Slavery to Prison: Benjamin Rush, Harriet Jacobs, and the Ideology of Reformative Incarceration." Genre 35 (2002): 429-47. Larsen, Nella Harrison-Kahan, Lori. "Her 'Nig': Returning the Gaze of Nella Larsen's Passing." Modern Language Studies 32.2 (2002): 109-38. Lee, Mary Greenhow Phipps, Sheila R. Genteel Rebel: The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee. Baton Rouge...

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