{"product_id":"secret-histories-a-new-era-in-constance-fenimore-woolson-scholarship-paperback","title":"Secret Histories: A New Era in Constance Fenimore Woolson Scholarship - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathleen Diffley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCaroline Gebhard\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCheryl Torsney\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eighteen essays in this volume explore Constance Fenimore Woolson's prodigious range of place, from the Great Lakes to the defeated South and across storied Europe to the Mediterranean. Her achievements come alive in this enlightening collection, shedding light on the full scope of her professional writing career. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first section, \"A Writer's Experiments,\" reveals that Woolson's play with familiar genres and unfamiliar characters began during the 1870s and extended until she died in 1894. Consistently, she tested the limits of representing women's labor and their erotic desires. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe second section, \"Postbellum Souths,\" follows Woolson's travels through a land ravaged by war and injustice. Drawing on theories of travel, collective memory, the Lost Cause, religious controversy, and a race-bound region, these essays expose both the smugness of visitors and the agendas of residents that Woolson was among the first postwar writers to portray. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe third section, \"Through an International Lens,\" considers expatriate perceptions of European and Mediterranean cultures as well as misconceptions about the Gilded Age United States. Here and throughout this volume, accounts of Woolson's travel sketches mingle with those of her fiction and poetry, while her encounters with the writing of other Americans demonstrate how regularly Woolson made her century's literary terrain more subtle and complex.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathleen Diffley (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KATHLEEN DIFFLEY is professor emerita at the University of Iowa and director of the Civil War Caucus. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861-1876 \u003c\/i\u003e(Georgia) and editor of \u003ci\u003eWitness to Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaroline Gebhard (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CAROLINE GEBHARD is professor emerita at Tuskegee University. She is a founding member of the Woolson Society and coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePost-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCheryl B. Torsney (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHERYL B. TORSNEY is program manager for leadership and career studies at Temple University. A founding member of the Woolson Society, she is the author of \u003ci\u003eConstance Fenimore Woolson: The Grief of Artistry \u003c\/i\u003eand the editor of \u003ci\u003eCritical Essays on Constance Fenimore Woolson\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44246266314803,"sku":"9780820369846","price":123.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/2191\/6467\/files\/3hxg2Lk6lg9780820369846.webp?v=1777667413","url":"https:\/\/thereadinghousebookcompany.com\/products\/secret-histories-a-new-era-in-constance-fenimore-woolson-scholarship-paperback","provider":"The Reading House Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}