Overview
- Applies the interdisciplinary topics of liminality and hybridity to American women writers
- Examines understudied and canonical writers
- Takes a new historicist approach to deepen the scholarship on gender, genre, and American literature
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Early American Thresholds
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Nineteenth-Century Thresholds
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Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Thresholds
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kristin Allukian is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of South Florida, USA. Her research areas include American literature to 1900, women's literature, and feminist digital humanities. Her current book project examines the relationship between women, work, and labor systems in postbellum American literature.
Rickie-Ann Legleitner is Assistant Professor of English and Co-Coordinator of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA. Her research and teaching interests include American literature and culture, women writers, and identity and disability studies. Her current book project examines intersectionality in Künstlerromane by American women writers (1850-1930).
Leslie Allison is Assistant Director of the Temple University Writing Center, USA. Her primary research and teaching areas include twentieth-century American literature and women’s literature, and her work has appeared in Studies in the Novel. She is currently working on a monograph about postwar women writers’ representations of adolescent girlhood.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women's Literature
Book Subtitle: Thresholds in Women's Writing
Editors: Kristin J. Jacobson, Kristin Allukian, Rickie-Ann Legleitner, Leslie Allison
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73851-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73850-5Published: 24 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08870-5Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73851-2Published: 04 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 320
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations