Scribbling women & the short story form [electronic resource] : approaches by American & British women writers / edited by Ellen Burton Harrington.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Scribbling women and the outlaw form of the short story / Ellen Burton Harrington -- A miniaturization of epic proportions : Harriet Prescott Spofford's "Circumstance" / Robert Coleman -- Sexing the narrator : gender in Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the iron-mills" / Ruth Stoner -- The short story as feminist forum : Louisa May Alcott's "Pauline's passion and punishment" / Miriam López-Rodríguez -- The art of (dis)placement : Ruth Stuart and the characterization of African Americans at the turn of the century / Susan Prothro Wright -- The linked excitements of L.T. Meade and ... in the Strand magazine / Winnie Chan -- Naturalism and the short story form in Kate Chopin's "The story of an hour" / Scott D. Emmert -- Strategies of self-representation in "Natalie" by Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Margot Sempreora -- Zitkala-Ša and Sui Sin Far's sketch collections : communal characterization as resistance writing tool / Vanessa Holford Diana -- Laura's unconscious rejection of the short story in Katherine Anne Porter's "Flowering Judas" / Susana M. Jiménez-Placer -- "Beyond human reach" : silence and continguity in Katherine Anne Porter's "Holiday" and "He" / Rachel Lister -- Flannery O'Connor's "The temple of the Holy Ghost" and "Parker's back" as dermatology/theology / Sue Brannan Walker -- Cynthia Ozick's "The pagan rabbi" and the seduction of the storyteller / Beth Ellen Roberts -- Breaking it down : analysis in the stories of Lydia Davis / Karen Alexander -- Silko, Le Sueur, and Le Guin : storytelling as a "movement toward wholeness" / Gayle Elliott.

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