Elizabeth Stoddard and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture traces Stoddard's emergence as a writer in the 1850s, her conflict-ridden relationships with the writ

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Although she wrote voluminously in a range of genres, including fiction, poetry, and journalism, Elizabeth Stoddard has mainly been known as the wife of poet Ri

This volume illustrates the significance of epistolarity as a literary phenomenon intricately interwoven with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural develo

The scholarship devoted to American literary realism has long wrestled with problems of definition: is realism a genre, with a particular form, content, and tec