Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn Into the Twentieth Century

by Elizabeth Ammons

Book Overview

The early 1890s through the late 1920s saw an explosion in serious long fiction by women in the United States. Considering a wide range of authors--African American, Asian American, white American, and Native American--this book looks at the work of seventeen writers from that period: Frances Ellen Harper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Kate Chopin, Pauline Hopkins, Gertrude Stein, Mary Austin, Sui Sin Far, Willa...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195080386
• ISBN13: 9780195080384
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"