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Woman's Fiction

A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820-70

By: Nina Baym

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Woman's Fiction

A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820-70

By: Nina Baym

This reissue of the pioneering and standard book on antebellum women's domestic novels contains a new introduction situating the book in the context of important recent developments in the study of women's writing. Nina Baym considers 130 novels by 48 women, focusing on the works of a dozen especially productive and successful writers. Woman's Fiction is a major-work in nineteenth-century literature, reexamining changes in the literary canon and the meaning of sentimentalism, while responding to current critical discussions of 'the body' in literary texts. ''Informative and stimulating. . . . Nina Baym has undertaken a systematic analysis of that nineteenth-century American fiction normally dismissed as at best trivially sentimental. . . . Woman's Fiction offers a fresh perspective on a largely forgotten body of literature.'' -- American Literature''Perceives in the fiction of, by, and for women in the period stated a popular genre that made a particular kind of feminist avowal for the times, one that rejected the concept of helplessness and urged the application of intelligence and courage to trying situations. . . . Baym marshals ample supporting evidence from the outpouring of such fiction.'' - ALA Booklist

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Woman's Fiction

A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820-70

By: Nina Baym

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Feminism and American Literary History

Essays

By: Nina Baym

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Feminism and American Literary History

Essays

By: Nina Baym

For more than a decade Nina Baym has pioneered in the reexamination of American literature. She has led the way in questioning assumptions about American literary history, in critiquing the standard canon of works we read and teach, and in rediscovering lost texts by American women writers. Feminism and American Literary History collects fourteen of her most important essays published since 1980, which, combining feminist perspectives with original archival research, significantly revise standard American literary history. In Part I, "Rewriting Old American Literary History," the focus is on male writers. Essays range from close readings of individual works to ambitious critiques of the main paradigms by which scholars have conventionally linked disparate texts and authors in a narrative of nationalist literary history: the self-in-the-wilderness myth, the romance-novel distinction, the myth of New England origins. Part II, "Writing New American Literary History," studies examples of women's writing from the Revolution through the Civil War. Stressing much overtly public and political writing that has been overlooked even by feminist scholars, noting public and political themes in supposedly domestic works, the essays substantially modify and historicize the paradigm by which premodern American women's writing is currently understood. The contentious and influential essays in Part III, "Two Feminist Polemics," address feminist literary theory and pedagogy, advocating a pluralist practice as the basis for scholarship, criticism, and humane feminism. No one interested in American literature or in women's writing can afford to ignore Baym's revisionist work. Humorous and gracefully written, this book is enjoyable and indispensable.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813518555

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The Shape of Hawthorne's Career

By: Nina Baym

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The Shape of Hawthorne's Career

By: Nina Baym

This gracefully written book considers all of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works, from Fanshawe through the unfinished romances of his last years, and establishes the pattern of his literary development. Ms. Baym brings the crucial facts of Hawthorne’s career into clear focus, and places the individual works within the total picture. Disputing some enduring critical pieties, she finds in Hawthorne a writer who experimented with a series of literary poses through which he tried both to discover himself and to please his audience. He realized late, she says, the paradox that the more he departed from conventional modes, the more "popular" his writing became. By looking discerningly at all of Hawthorne’s work as it unfolded, Ms. Baym produces compelling new insights into a major American writer and adds appreciably to our understanding of him.

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Cornell University Press

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1501735683

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9781501735684

Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927

By: Nina Baym

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Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927

By: Nina Baym

Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others better known novelists, poets, memoirists, and historians such as Willa Cather and Mary Austin Holley. Nina Baym mined literary and cultural histories, anthologies, scholarly essays, catalogs, advertisements, and online resources to debunk critical assumptions that women did not publish about the West as much as they did about other regions. Elucidating a substantial body of nearly 650 books of all kinds by more than 300 writers, Baym reveals how the authors showed women making lives for themselves in the West, how they represented the diverse region, and how they represented themselves. Baym accounts for a wide range of genres and geographies, affirming that the literature of the West was always more than cowboy tales and dime novels. Nor did the West consist of a single landscape, as women living in the expanses of Texas saw a different world from that seen by women in gold rush California. Although many women writers of the American West accepted domestic agendas crucial to the development of families, farms, and businesses, they also found ways to be forceful agents of change, whether by taking on political positions, deriding male arrogance, or, as their voluminous published works show, speaking out when they were expected to be silent.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252078845

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Novels, Readers, and Reviewers

Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America

By: Nina Baym

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Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America

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1501726188

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The Norton Anthology of American Literature

Eighth Edition

By: Baym, Nina,Levine, Robert S

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The Norton Anthology of American Literature

Eighth Edition

By: Baym, Nina,Levine, Robert S

The Eighth Edition features a diverse and balanced variety of works and thorough but judicious editorial apparatus throughout. The new edition also includes more complete works, much-requested new authors, 170 in-text images, new and re-thought contextual clusters, and other tools that help instructors teach the course they want to teach.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393913090

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The Norton Anthology of American Literature

Beginnings to 1820

By: Wayne Franklin,Philip F. Gura,Arnold Krupat

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The Norton Anthology of American Literature

Beginnings to 1820

By: Wayne Franklin,Philip F. Gura,Arnold Krupat

Under Nina Baym's direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and all the apparatus to make the anthology an even better teaching tool.

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W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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0393927393

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9780393927399

Lectures On Quantum Mechanics

By: Gordon Baym

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Lectures On Quantum Mechanics

By: Gordon Baym

These lecture notes comprise a three-semester graduate course in quantum mechanics at the University of Illinois. There are a number of texts which present the basic topics very well; but since a fair quantity of the material discussed in my course was not available to the students in elementary quantum mechanics books, I was asked to prepare written notes. In retrospect these lecture notes seemed sufficiently interesting to warrant their publication in this format. The notes, presented here in slightly revised form, consitutute a self-contained course in quantum mechanics from first principles to elementary and relativistic one-particle mechanics. Prerequisite to reading these notes is some familiarity with elementary quantum mechanics, at least at the undergraduate level. Preferably the reader should already have met the uncertainty principle and the concept of a wave function. Prerequisites also include sufficient acquaintance with complex cariables to be able to do simple contour integrals and to understand words such as "poles" and "branch cuts." An elementary knowledge of Fourier transforms and series is necessary. I also assume an awareness of classical electrodynamics.

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CRC Press

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0429967810

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9780429967818

Tune In, Log On

Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community

By: Nancy K. Baym

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Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community

By: Nancy K. Baym

An ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. Bridging the fields of computer-mediated communication and audience studies, it shows how verbal and non verbal communicative practices create collaborative interpretations and criticism, group humour, interpersonal relationships, group norms and individual identity.

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0761916490

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Novels, Readers, and Reviewers

Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America

By: Nina Baym

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Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927

By: Nina Baym

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American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-century Sciences

Styles of Affiliation

By: Nina Baym

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American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-century Sciences

Styles of Affiliation

By: Nina Baym

This book explores the responses to science displayed in a range of writings by American women. Conceding that they could not become scientists, women insisted, however, that they were capable of understanding science and participating in its discourse. They used their access to publishing to advocate the study and transmission of scientific information to the general public. Baym's book includes biographies and a full exploration of these women's works. She also investigates science in women's novels, writing by and about women doctors, and the scientific claims advanced by women's spiritualist movements.

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0813529859

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The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin

By: Kate Chopin

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The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin

By: Kate Chopin

The poignant story of a woman who pursues love outside of her restrictive marriage in turn-of-the-century New Orleans.

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0743487672

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The Norton Anthology of American Literature

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Lectures On Quantum Mechanics

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American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-century Sciences

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The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin

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