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Examines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literature Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women

No More Separate Spheres! challenges the limitations of thinking about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of “male public” and “fema

This collection of essays centers on women writers who negotiated, interrogated, and challenged the gender ideology of separate spheres through their advocacy a

Seeking to understand how literary texts both shaped and reflected the century's debates over adolescent female education, this book examines fictional works an