Morgesons and Other Writings Published and Unpublished

"Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."--from the Introduction The centerpiece of this volume isThe Morgesons(1862), one of the few outstanding feminist bildungsromanae of that century. Additional selections include arresting short stories and provocative journalistic essays/reviews, plus a number of letters and manuscript journals that have never before been published. The texts are fully edited and documented.Stoddard, Elizabeth is the author of 'Morgesons and Other Writings Published and Unpublished', published 1984 under ISBN 9780812211702 and ISBN 0812211707.