American Women Short Story Writers

Julie Brown , (PhD., University of Winsconsin-Milwaukee) is an English professor at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Oregon, where she teaches American literature, creative writing, and composition.

• General Editor's Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction Julie Brown Literary Excellence and Social Reform: Lydia Maria Child's Ultraisms for the 1840s Bruce Mills Fiction as Political Discourse: Rose Terry Cooke's Antisuffrage Short Stories Sherry LeeLinkon Elizabeth Stoddard: An Examination of Her Work as Pivot Between Exploratory Fiction and the Modern Short Story Timothy Morris Who Was That Masked Woman? Gender and Form in Louisa May Alcott's Fiction Gail K. Smith Ripe Fruit: Fantastic Elements in the Short Fiction of Ellen Glasgow, Edith Wharton, and Eudora Welty Stephanie Branson Lady Terrorists: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Ghost Story Barbara Patrick Representations of Female Authorship in Turn of the Century American Magazine Fiction Ellen Gruber Garvey Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century Lillian Faderman Martha Wolfenstein's Isyls of the Grass and rhw Dilemma of Ethnic Self-Representation Barbara Shollar Fannie Hurst's Short Stories of Working Women--"Oats for the Woman," Sob Sister," and Contemporary Reader Responses: A meditation Susan Koppleman LostBroders and Blurred Boundaries : Mary Austin as Storyteller Linda K. Karell Ritual and Renewal: Keres Tradition sin the Short Fiction of Leslie Silko A.Lavonne Brown Ruoff "A Revolutionary Tale": In Search of African American Women's Short Story Writing Bill Mullen Society and Self in Alice Walker's inLove and Trouble Dolan Hubbard Displaced Abjection and States of Grace: Denise Chavez's The Last of theMenu Girls Douglas Anderson Dorthy Parker's Perpetual Motion Ken Johnson The "Feminine" Short Story in America: Historicizing Epiphanies Mary Burgan Joyce Carol Oates: Reimagining the Masters, Or, A Woman's Place Is in Her Own Fiction Margaret Rogza Gender and Genre: The Case of the Novel-in-Stories Margot kelly The Great Ventriloquist Act: Gender and Voice in the Fiction Workshop Julie Brown Bibliography of primary Sources Susan Koppleman Bibliography of Secondary Sources Amy Schoenberger Contributors Index