American Literature · 1994 · 111 citations · 0 references
HumanitiesHistoryLiteratureAfrican American LiteratureAmerican LiteratureAmerican StudiesAfrican American Literary StudiesAmerican FictionBlack Women's LiteratureNineteenth-century American LiteratureWomen In LiteratureWomen WritersAdaptation Of Canonical WorksAfrican American FictionAfrican American Women's WritingBlack Women In LiteratureBlack Women WritersFeminist Reader-response CriticismNineteenth-century HistoriographyWomen's Literary History
Presents a number of important Americanist scholars doing substantial and thought-provoking work. These scholars rethink responses to canonical works and come to important new undertsandings of women's and African American writing...'Readers in History' suggests that new attention to the social dynamics of reading will generate important new understandings of nineteenth-century American literature.--John Evelev, 'Nineteenth-Century Prose'