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Article: The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers.(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
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- September 22, 1994
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The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth.Century Women Writers, ed. Joyce W. Warren (Rutgers UP, 1993), 313 pp., $45.00 cloth, $15.00 paper.
When I began teaching "American" literature almost a decade ago, it was nearly impossible to include nineteenth-century women writers, mainly because texts of their works were largely unavailable. Since the mid-1980s and the appearance of the first pioneering anthologies of their work, many of these writers have been reprinted in the twentieth century for the first time. In 1986 Rutgers inaugurated the American Women Writers Series, and in 1988 the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers appeared, ...