Studies in American Fiction back issues from March 2002:
Managing madness in Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper".(Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
Mar 22, 2002; ... "For many years I suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia--and beyond. During about the third year of this trouble I went, in devout faith and some faint stir of hope, to a noted specialist in nervous diseases, the best known in the country. This wise ...
Romantic flight in Jewett's "White Heron".(Sarah Orne Jewett)
Mar 22, 2002; ... Mr. Howells thinks that this age frowns upon the romantic, that it is no use to write romance any more; but dear me, how much of it there is left in every-day life after all. It must be the fault of the writers that such writing is dull, but what shall I do with my "White Heron" now she is ...
In possession of the letter: Kate Chopin's "Her Letters".
Mar 22, 2002; ... The scandal surrounding the publication of Kate Chopin's 1899 The Awakening tarnished its author's reputation and "effectively removed the novel from wide circulation and influence for fifty years following its publication." (1) The book was derided by Chopin's contemporaries as "trite and ...
Ambivalence on the left: Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run?
Mar 22, 2002; ... Like so many novels of the 1930s and early 1940s, Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) has a transparent political agenda. Because it follows so closely Schulberg's own participation in the founding of the Screen Writer's Guild in Hollywood, the novel has provided labor historians ...
"You must make less noise in here, Mister Schouler": acoustic profiling in American realism.
Mar 22, 2002; ... When Walt Whitman proudly named America a "nation of nations" and celebrated "the perpetual coming of immigrants" in his 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass, (1) he referred both to the settlement of America by European immigrants and to a process that was only just beginning when he published ...
Rewriting heroines: Ruth Todd's "Florence Grey," society pages, and the rhetorics of success.
Mar 22, 2002; ... When the beautiful, light-skinned title character of Ruth Todd's "Florence Grey" (1902) is abducted from a garden party at her family's villa, it takes her friends some time to realize her absence is not voluntary. They do not know that the chaste belle of "Negro aristocracy" (1) has ...