Review of: Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women\u27s Life Writing. By Katherine Adams.

In Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women’s Life Writing, Katherine Adams sets out to explore “the consequences of imagining human existence in terms of two antagonistic and simultaneous conditions—we are owned, we are not owned— and of incessantly rehearsing the drama of passage between them” (p. 203). Adams is particularly concerned with “how such representations, and the fantasy they project of self-(non)-possession—that is, of self-possession without self-alienation—intersect with questions about democratic freedom and nationhood” (p. 203). Locating her discussion in the culturally unstable period of 1840–90, Adams moves from the antebellum context of romantic nationalism to the late nineteenth century’s vexed lament for a perceived loss of privacy

Gender & Education in Hawthorne\u27s \u27Queen Christina\u27

The strong, dark women who live in Nathaniel Hawthorne\u27s major romances invite us to view their author as sympathetic to what Nina Auerbach has called the complex life of woman in culture . Hester Prynne, Zenobia, and Miriam all shine as female representatives of the human creative and passionate forces . Indeed, Hawthorne\u27s depiction of women and his attitude toward feminist ideas in the romances is strongly sympathetic. Because of this sensitivity, the negative presentation of the title character in the earlier children\u27s story Queen Christina, part of the Biographical Stories for Children collection, raises troubling questions about Hawthorne\u27s handling of genre and gender

Uncommon women: gender and representation in nineteenth-century U.S. women's writing

(print) viii, 187 p. ; 24 cmAcknowledgments vii -- Introduction "Without Any Resort to Amazonian Conventions" : Women, Writing, Representation 1 -- Ch. 1 "A More Masculine Courage" : Women's Voice and the Nineteenth-Century Publication of Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal 23 -- Ch. 2 "Everything by Turns and Nothing Long" : Configurations of Female Selfhood in Fanny Fern's Early Periodical Writing 54 -- Ch. 3 "How Could You Leave Me Alone When the Room Was Full of Men!" : Gender and Self-Representation in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches 79 -- Ch. 4 "I Am Other than My Appearance Indicates" : Sex-Gender Representation in Women's Nineteenth-Century Civil War Reminiscences 106 -- Conclusion "I Found It Hard to Preserve My Self-Control" : Race, Women, Representation 134 -- Notes 157 -- Works Cited 171 -- Index 181Item embargoed for five year

Ella Higginson and the Beginnings of Pacific Northwest Literature

Award-winning scholar and Western Washington University English Professor Laura Laffrado discusses her project to recover the writings of forgotten Pacific Northwest writer Ella Rhoads Higginson, which began in the collections of Western Libraries Heritage Resources and ultimately led to the publication of her recent book, “Selected Writings of Ella Higginson: Inventing Pacific Northwest Literature.