The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature by Dale ... - 9781108748339

The Cambridge History of American Women's LiteratureAuthor(s): Dale M. Bauer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108748339, 978-1108748339\nSynopsis\nThe field of American women's writing is one characterized by innovation: scholars are discovering new authors and works, as well as new ways of historicizing this literature, rethinking contexts, categories and juxtapositions. Now, after three decades of scholarly investigation and innovation, the rich complexity and diversity of American literature written by women can be seen with a new coherence and subtlety. Dedicated to this expanding heterogeneity, The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature develops and challenges historical, cultural, theoretical, even polemical methods, all of which will advance the future study of American women writers from Native Americans to postmodern communities, from individual careers to communities of wr.