Melissa Walker Heidari is a professor of English at Columbia College, South Carolina, where she teaches American literature. She is the editor of "To Find My Own Peace": Grace King in Her Journals, 1886–1910 (University of Georgia Press, 2004). In addition to her scholarship on Grace King, she has published and presented papers on other nineteenth-century writers, with a special interest in American Gothic fiction.Brigitte Zaugg is an associate professor at the Université de Lorraine, Metz, France, where she teaches American literature and translation. She wrote her PhD dissertation on Ellen Glasgow and has published articles mostly on nineteenth-century American women writers, in particular Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton, but also on Margaret Mitchell and Bobbie Ann Mason. She has co-edited seven academic books and in her spare time translates novels for a bilingual publishing house, the latest to date being a co-translation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oxalide, 2018).

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction"The continual voyage I made": Grace King’s Journey to ModernityMelissa Walker Heidari"Passionément was what I wanted": Female Sexuality in Grace King and Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s FictionSirpa Salenius25 Buts: Grace King as Southern HumoristRalph J. PooleLiminality and Linguistics:A Stylistic Analysis of Grace King's Balcony StoriesIneke BocktingThe Theatricality of Writing in Grace King’s Short Stories: Invisible Women on the BalconyFrançoise BuissonVoicing Race in Grace King’s Monsieur MotteKathie BiratGrace King’s Apocalyptic Fiction:Lifting the Veil from "The Story of a Day"Stéphanie DurransMyths of Domesticity and Mobility in Grace King’s "A Crippled Hope" and "The Little Convent Girl"Amy Doherty MohrPutting Up the Veil to See Better:Grace King’s "The Little Convent Girl"Brigitte ZauggAfterwordGoing to the Source: Grace King’s Papers and Critical AnalysisMiki PfefferContributorsIndex

Melissa Walker Heidari is a professor of English at Columbia College, South Carolina, where she teaches American literature. She is the editor of "To Find My Own Peace": Grace King in Her Journals, 1886–1910 (University of Georgia Press, 2004). In addition to her scholarship on Grace King, she has published and presented papers on other nineteenth-century writers, with a special interest in American Gothic fiction.Brigitte Zaugg is an associate professor at the Université de Lorraine, Metz, France, where she teaches American literature and translation. She wrote her PhD dissertation on Ellen Glasgow and has published articles mostly on nineteenth-century American women writers, in particular Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton, but also on Margaret Mitchell and Bobbie Ann Mason. She has co-edited seven academic books and in her spare time translates novels for a bilingual publishing house, the latest to date being a co-translation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oxalide, 2018).

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction"The continual voyage I made": Grace King’s Journey to ModernityMelissa Walker Heidari"Passionément was what I wanted": Female Sexuality in Grace King and Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s FictionSirpa Salenius25 Buts: Grace King as Southern HumoristRalph J. PooleLiminality and Linguistics:A Stylistic Analysis of Grace King's Balcony StoriesIneke BocktingThe Theatricality of Writing in Grace King’s Short Stories: Invisible Women on the BalconyFrançoise BuissonVoicing Race in Grace King’s Monsieur MotteKathie BiratGrace King’s Apocalyptic Fiction:Lifting the Veil from "The Story of a Day"Stéphanie DurransMyths of Domesticity and Mobility in Grace King’s "A Crippled Hope" and "The Little Convent Girl"Amy Doherty MohrPutting Up the Veil to See Better:Grace King’s "The Little Convent Girl"Brigitte ZauggAfterwordGoing to the Source: Grace King’s Papers and Critical AnalysisMiki PfefferContributorsIndex