The Morgesons and Other Writings: Published and Unpublished

by Elizabeth Stoddard

Book Overview

"Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."--from the Introduction

The centerpiece of this volume is The Morgesons (1862), one of the few outstanding feminist bildungsromanae of that century. Additional selections include arresting short stories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812211707
• ISBN13: 9780812211702
• Release Date: June 1984
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"