![]() ![]() ![]() “Southworth’s Genres,” the second grouping, considers her use of a range of genres beyond the sentimental novel and the domestic novel. The first, “Serial Southworth,” treats her fiction in periodical publication contexts. Following an introduction by the editors, these articles are divided into four thematic clusters. However, this new book-the first since the 1930s devoted entirely to Southworth-shows the depth of her career beyond that publication and reassesses her place in American literature.Įditors Melissa Homestead and Pamela Washington have gathered twelve original essays from both established and emerging scholars that set a new agenda for the study of E. ![]() Even now, most scholarship on Southworth focuses on her most famous novel, The Hidden Hand. Southworth enjoyed enormous public success in her day-she published nearly fifty novels during her career-but that very popularity, combined with her gender, led to her almost complete neglect by the critical establishment before the emergence of academic feminism. The prolific nineteenth-century writer E. ![]()
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