Marcia B. Littenberg (essay date 2001)
SOURCE: Littenberg, Marcia B. “Gender and Genre: A New Perspective on Nineteenth-Century Women's Nature Writing.” In Such News of the Land: U. S. Women Nature Writers, edited by Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. DeWolfe, pp. 59-67. Hanover, N. H.: University Press of New England, 2001.
[In the following essay, Littenberg discusses the conditions surrounding the flourishing of women's nature writing in the late nineteenth century.]
In the last decades of the nineteenth century, American popular culture...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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