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Rediscoveries: American Short Stories by Women, 1880-1916
Rediscoveries American Short Stories by Women 18801916 Author:Barbara H. Solomon (Editor) American Literature’s Forgotten Writers -- Women of the Nineteenth Century — This milestone volume of fiction brings together stories that changed the course of American literature as it evolved from romanticism to realism, including America’s first naturalistic story. Many of these works... more » have been out of print for more than a century, partly because they were written by women. Nathaniel Hawthorne called the authors “a damned mob of scribbling women”, who dared to expose what was in their hearts, as well as their heads.
The 33 stories by 21 women writers included here focus on character rather than plot and lead us into parlors, kitchens, and shops where one notices the telling details of a worn but mended carpet, the meal set before an irritable husband, or the oil spilled from a tipped lamp. Powerful emotions, important ideas, and compelling dramas occurring behind the walls of ordinary houses -- particularly the struggles of the Sioux, the Chinese, and African Americans as told by minority writers -- appear in these tales first published a hundred or more years ago.
These selections, along with unfamiliar stories by authors such as Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton, make Rediscoveries a valuable resource and an enriched and expanded vision of our literary history. Here are the missing voices of American literature. « less