Recovers the careers of four US women serial writers, and establishes a new archive for American literary studies.

Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. N

Examining how nineteenth-century Black women writers engaged radical reform, sentiment and their various readerships

The first major study in English of nineteenth-century German women writers, this book examines their social and cultural milieu along with the layers of interp