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"Thoroughly engaging for readers fascinated by the nineteenth century, and essential reading for understanding the complex ways women have found to wield cultural and political influence." - Marjorie Pryse, University at Albany
"In this scintillatingly-written book, as intelligent as the conversations generated by the two hostesses that are its main subject, Harris serves up to a wide audience a virtual feast of well-prepared information. As an important contribution to the new and growing field of trans-Atlantic studies, the book offers a range of methods for future work while it lays out a broad social panorama." - Adrienne Munich, author of Queen Victoria s Secrets
About the author
University, University Park. Previously, she taught for fifteen years at Queens
College, of the City University of New York. Her publications include The
Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain (Cambridge University Press, 1996); 19th-Century American Women's Novels: Interpretive Strategies (Cambridge University Press, 1990); and Mark Twain's Escape from Time: A Study of Patterns and Images (University of Missouri Press, 1982). She has also edited Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Houghton Mifflin, 2000); Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing (Penguin, 1999); and Mark Twain: Historical Romances (The Library of America, 1994). Her essays have appeared in collections published by Oxford, Johns Hopkins, and Rutgers University presses, and in journals such as American Literature, New England Quarterly, and Studies in the Novel. She has edited Legacy: A Journal of American Women's Writing, and has served on advisory boards for Leviathan: the Melville Society Journal, The Oxford Reader's Companion to Mark Twain, and the Mark Twain Museum in Hannibal, Missouri.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess
Book Subtitle: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew
Authors: Susan K. Harris
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11639-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-29529-5Published: 05 November 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-63563-4Published: 05 November 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-11639-0Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 192
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, North American Literature, Clinical Psychology, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Gender Studies