Our Sister Editors
Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Women Editors
Title Details
Pages: 272
Illustrations: 10 photos
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 06/01/2008
ISBN: 9-780-8203-3249-9
List Price: $30.95
Related Subjects
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers
Our Sister Editors
Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Women Editors
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Readers will be intrigued, challenged, and enlightened by the unprecedentedly strong claims that Okker makes for mainstream American Victorian conceptions of womanhood as a socially empowering formation for women writers and readers, and for the ambitiousness and complexity of Hale's design and achievement as one of the chief fomenters of these conceptions.
—Lawrence Buell, Harvard University
Okker makes complex and critically sophisticated arguments. I hope that Okker's work will encourage others to push forward in this fascinating field of research and complete the task she had begun.
—New England Quarterly
Patricia Okker's study of Sarah Josepha Hale challenges several unexamined assumptions of both American literary history and feminist criticism.
—American Literature
Okker's book is well argued and enlightening, strongly supported by specific examples from Hale's editorials, articles, and choice of materials. This is the only comprehensive list of nineteenth century women magazine editors and is invaluable to those interested in researching these women and their work.
—Victorian Periodicals Review