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Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women's Literature

Thresholds in Women's Writing

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Editors:
  1. Kristin J. Jacobson

    1. Stockton University, Galloway, NJ, USA

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  2. Kristin Allukian

    1. University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

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  3. Rickie-Ann Legleitner

    1. University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI, USA

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  4. Leslie Allison

    1. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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  • Applies the interdisciplinary topics of liminality and hybridity to American women writers

  • Examines understudied and canonical writers

  • Takes a new historicist approach to deepen the scholarship on gender, genre, and American literature

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction: Threshold Thinking

    • Rita Bode, Kristin J. Jacobson
    Pages 1-16

  4. Nineteenth-Century Thresholds

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Resistance and Alternative Histories in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing

      • Rickie-Ann Legleitner
      Pages 99-103

    3. Changing Is Surviving: Transformation as Resistance in the Ojibwe Stories of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

      • Sarah Olivier
      Pages 105-124

    4. Inhabiting the Liminal: The Architecture of Single Life in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Fiction

      • Michelle Gaffner Wood
      Pages 125-144

    5. Contesting Sentimentalism: Human–Animal Bonds and Boundaries in Grace Greenwood’s History of My Pets

      • Kerstin Rudolph
      Pages 145-163

    6. “The Third Sex”: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians in Queer, Liminal Literary Spaces

      • Margaret Jay Jessee
      Pages 165-181

    7. “Costume de ghost”: Liminality in Grace King’s Balcony Stories

      • Stéphanie Durrans
      Pages 183-199
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About this book

This book highlights the multiplicity of American women’s writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment. Often informed by notions of crossing, intersectionality, transition, and transformation, these concepts as they appear in American women’s writing contest as well as perpetuate exclusionary practices involving class, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, and sex, among other variables. The collection’s introduction, three unit introductions, fourteen individual essays, and afterward facilitate a process of encounters, engagements, and conversations within, between, among, and across the rich polyphony that constitutes the creative acts of American women writers. The contributors offer fresh perspectives on canonical writers as well as introduce readers to new authors. As a whole, the collection demonstrates American women’s writing is “threshold writing,” or writing that occupies a liminal, hybrid space that both delimits borders and offers enticing openings.

Reviews

“This collection introduces new and important authors and scholars into an expanded canon of American literature, and it puts more familiar authors and scholars into conversation with them and with each other. All benefit, as will students, teachers, scholars, and other readers.” (Robert Daly, Distinguished Teaching Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Stockton University, Galloway, NJ, USA

    Kristin J. Jacobson

  • University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

    Kristin Allukian

  • University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI, USA

    Rickie-Ann Legleitner

  • Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Leslie Allison

About the editors

Kristin J. Jacobson is Professor of American Literature, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and American Studies at Stockton University, USA. Her book, Neodomestic American Fiction, examines contemporary domestic novels. She has published in Genre, Legacy, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and edited collections. Her current book analyzes the American adrenaline narrative. 


Kristin Allukian is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of South Florida, USA. Her research areas include American literature to 1900, women's literature, and feminist digital humanities. Her current book project examines the relationship between women, work, and labor systems in postbellum American literature. 


Rickie-Ann Legleitner is Assistant Professor of English and Co-Coordinator of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA. Her research and teaching interests include American literature and culture, women writers, and identity and disability studies. Her current book project examines intersectionality in Künstlerromane by American women writers (1850-1930). 


Leslie Allison is Assistant Director of the Temple University Writing Center, USA. Her primary research and teaching areas include twentieth-century American literature and women’s literature, and her work has appeared in Studies in the Novel. She is currently working on a monograph about postwar women writers’ representations of adolescent girlhood.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women's Literature

  • Book Subtitle: Thresholds in Women's Writing

  • Editors: Kristin J. Jacobson, Kristin Allukian, Rickie-Ann Legleitner, Leslie Allison

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73851-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73850-5Published: 24 May 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08870-5Published: 29 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73851-2Published: 04 May 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 320

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Literary History, North American Literature

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