The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One
17th through 19th Centuries
Volume One of The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers includes over three hundred selections and spans three centuries of women's writings in the U.S. From criminal confessions to politic pamphlets to fiction, plays, poetry, and memoirs, these pages are filled with words of women who embody the complex history of this nation.
Co-Editors: Shay Brawn, Bonnie J. Dow, David Kazanjian, Deborah T. Meem, and Rhonda Pettit
This is a beautifully crafted, thoughtfully inclusive anthology of U.S. women's writings. The depth and breadth of texts will make it invaluable for a wide range of courses and disciplines. The editors' attention to diversity of writers is matched with diversity of genres, styles, and perspectives. With incisive headnotes and a richness of content unequaled in currently available anthologies of U.S. women's writings, this is the anthology for which we have all been waiting. — Sharon M. Harris, Lorraine Sherley Professor in Literature, Texas Christian University
This wide-ranging, compelling anthology of well-known, lesser-known and virtually unknown U.S. women writers shows that U.S. women have participated vigorously and imaginatively in public discourse from the beginning. It will be invaluable for students, teachers, and scholars of women writers and of American literature across the board. — Sandra A. Zagarell, Oberlin College
This anthology adds new dimensions to our sense of women's contributions to American culture and helps us to understand our own history in more complex ways… A welcome contribution to American social, intellectual, cultural and literary histories. — Cheryl Walker, Scripps College
I am grateful for the introduction that the anthology provides to women writers with whom I am unfamiliar and for the new insights it offers into many of those with whom I have lived for years. This anthology is more than a collection of literary works; it is a study in the access that literature gives us to the past and a commentary on the terms through which we endless construct it. — Priscilla Wald, Duke University
Lisa Maria Hogeland holds a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. She previously served as Acting Director and Acting Associate/Graduate Director of the Center for Women's Studies and now holds a joint appointment in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature and Women's Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Feminism and Its Fictions: The Consciousness-Raising Novel and the Women's Liberation Movement. She is co-General Editor of The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume I: 17th through 19th Centuries, and of the Volume II: 20th Century. She is working on a book on American women's sentimental novels and their relevance to contemporary fiction. An award winning teacher, she prepares graduate students to teach the undergraduate Introduction to Women's Studies and serves on M.A. committees, teaches such core graduate courses as Feminist Theory: Current Issues, and offers such cross-listed English/Women's Studies courses as American Women Writers and Feminist Literary Criticism.
