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This article makes an argument for the significance of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's early work, particularly her 1870 novel, Hedged In, to the scholarly understanding of two overlapping fields: those of nineteenth-century American women's writing, and postbellum American literary realism. Examining how Phelps mobilizes the emerging tropes of realist writing, my account nuances the recent portrayal of Phelps as a member of a "transitional" generation of women writers bridging the gap between the popular sentimental novelists of the 1850s and turn-of-the-century female regionalists and realists. Such late-nineteenthcentury women writers as Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin, it has been claimed, belonged to the first generation of women writers to unambiguously assume the pose of high-cultural authorship, a model established just as the transitional generation was coming of age. 1 Originally associated with Nathaniel Hawthorne's sense of alienation from popular readership, this paradigm of the author as high literary artist has been seen as not fully available to the women authors who came of age in the early postbellum period precisely because it was constructed in opposition to the practic

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Author

Sophia Forster

Publisher

Project MUSE; University of North Texas (ISSN 0039-3827)

Published

2016

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)