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Legacy 19.2 (2002) 269-279


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Legacy Bookshelf

Compiled by Margaret M. S. Lowry,
Texas Christian University

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

Derrickson, Teresa. "Race and the Gothic Monster: The Xenophobic Impulse of Louisa May Alcott's 'Taming a Tartar."' American Transcendental Quarterly15 (2001): 43-58.

Sands-O'Connor, Karen. "Anything to Suit Customers: Antislavery and Little Women." Children's Literature Association Quarterly26.1 (2001): 33-38.

——. "Why Jo Didn't Marry Laurie: Louisa May Alcott and The Heir of Redclyffe." American Transcendental Quarterly15 (2001): 23-41.

Ashbridge, Elizabeth

Gildersleeve, D. Britton. "'I Had a Religious Mother': Maternal Ancestry, Female Spaces, and Spiritual Synthesis in Elizabeth Ashbridge's Account." Early American Literature36 (2001): 371-94

Sievers, Julie. "Awakening the Inner Light: Elizabeth Ashbridge and the Transformation of Quaker Community." Early American Literature36 (2001): 235-62.

Barnes, Djuna

Bockting, Margaret. "Satire and Romanticism in the Work of Djuna Barnes." CLA Journal44 (2001): 204-30.

Seitler, Dana. "Down on All Fours: Atavistic Perversions and the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to Djuna Barnes." American Literature73 (2001): 525-62.

Bishop, Elizabeth

Axelrod, Steven Gould. "Elizabeth Bishop: Nova Scotia in Brazil." Papers on Language & Literature37 (2001): 279-95.

Furlani, Andre. "Elizabeth Bishop's Stories of Childhood: Writing the Disaster." Critique43 (2002): 148-60.

Oliveira, Carmen L. Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2002. 200 pp. $26.00.

Roman, Camille. Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 176 pp. $45.00.

Blake, Lillie Devereux

Farrell, Grace. Lillie Devereux Blake: Retracing a Life Erased. Boston: U of Massachusetts P, 2002. 280 pp. $34.95.

Bleecker, Ann Eliza

Kutchen, Larry. "The 'Vulgar Thread of the Canvas': Revolution and the Picturesque in Ann Eliza [End Page 269] Bleecker, Crèvecoeur, and Charles Brockden Brown." Early American Literature36 (2001): 395-425.

Butts, Mary

Foy, Roslyn Reso. Ritual, Myth, and Mysticism in the Work of Mary Butts: Between Feminism and Modernism. Fayetteville: U of Arkansas P, 2000. 163 pp. $34.00.

Callahan, S. Alice

Bernardin, Susan. "On the Meeting Grounds of Sentiment: S. Alice Callahan's Wynema, A Child of the Forest." American Transcendental Quarterly15 (2001): 209-24.

Cather, Willa

Goldberg, Jonathan. Willa Cather and Others. Durham: Duke UP, 2001. 248 pp. $54.95/$18.95 paper.

Kleiman, Ed. "Bipolar Vision in Willa Cather's My Ántonia." English Studies82 (2001): 146-53.

Mullins, Maire. "'I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love': The Whitman-Cather Connection in O Pioneers!" Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature20 (2001): 123- 36.

Palmer, Scott. "'The Train of Thought': Classed Travel and Nationality in Willa Cather's My Ántonia." Studies in American Fiction29 (2001): 239-50.

Romines, Ann, ed. Willa Cather's Southern Connection: New Essays on Cather and the South. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2000. 249 pp. $59.50/$18.50 paper.

Skaggs, Merrill M. "Viola Roseboro': A Prototype for Cather's My Mortal Enemy." Mississippi Quarterly54.1 (2000-01): 5-21.

Stimac, Richard C. "The Hero and the Fool in Willa Cather's Early Short Fiction." Midwest Quarterly43.1 (2001): 42-50.

Child, Lydia Maria

Karcher, Carolyn L. "The Moderate and the Radical: Melville and Child on the Civil War and Reconstruction." ESQ45 (1999): 187-257.

Vàsquez, Mark G. "'Your Sister Cannot Speak to You and Understand You As I Do': Native American Culture and Female Subjectivity in Lydia Maria Child and Catharine Maria Sedgwick." American Transcendental Quarterly15 (2001): 173-90.

Chopin, Kate

Anderson, Maureen. "Unraveling the Southern Pastoral Tradition: A New Look at Kate Chopin's At Fault." Southern Literary Journal34.1 (2001): 1-13.

Muirhead, Marion. "Articulation and Artistry: A Conversational Analysis of The Awakening." Southern Literary Journal33.1 (2000): 42-54.

Pizer, Donald. "A Note on...

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