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Editor's Note
Apr 01, 2009; ... The year 2009 marks a significant milestone in the history of Legacy. Twentyfive years ago, in 1983, three enterprising and brave graduate students, Martha Ackmann, Karen Dandurand, and Joanne Dobson, founded the first scholarly journal devoted to a historically based study of American women's ...
Marriage, Coverture, and the Companionate Ideal in The Coquette and Dorval
Apr 01, 2009; ... Following Cathy N. Davidson's work in Revolution and the Word, virtually every critic who has since written about the novels of early America has discussed, in one way or another, female sexuality and its consequences in, and implications for, the novel. This fact is not surprising, given that ...
"When it ceases to be silly it becomes actually wrong": The Cultural Contexts of Female Homoerotic Desire in Rose Terry Cooke's "My Visitation"
Apr 01, 2009; ... In a popular antebellum conduct book titled The Young Lady's Friend, Eliza W. R. Farrar advises young female readers of "a custom among young ladies of holding each other's hands, and fondling them before company, which had much better be dispensed with." She instructs, "All kissing and ...
Constance Fenimore Woolson's Anthropology of Desire
Apr 01, 2009; ... Constance Fenimore Woolson has increasingly been recognized as a sub- tle and acute observer of cultural norms for gender and sexuality in late nineteenth-century America. Scholars have noted her ambivalent representa- tions of heterosexual love and her recurrent interest in figures of social ...
The Milwaukee School of Fleshly Poetry: Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems of Passion and Popular Aestheticism
Apr 01, 2009; ... "How can one begin? Where can one leave off?" (Woolf 97). Faced with Ella Wheeler Wilcox's autobiography, The Worlds and I, Virginia Woolf was - or claimed to be - stymied: There never was a more difficult book to review. If one puts in the Madame de Staël of Milwaukee, there will be no ...