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<p>&nbsp;</p> <p>In <i>Writers of Conviction</i>, Julia C. Ehrhardt examines the literary careers of four American writers who have not received the critical attention they deserve: Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rose Wilder Lane, and Josephine Herbst. For too long, popular twentieth-century female authors have been ignored by scholars—mainly because their stories were considered to lack serious political content or social commentary—despite their popularity with the general public.</p> <p><i>Writers of Conviction</i> reintroduces these authors to reveal a fascinating and unexplored aspect of white, middle-class, female authorship: the provocative links between each writer’s personal politics and her literary aspirations. Ehrhardt uses this innovative critical perspective to show that each woman became a writer in order to express her political beliefs to the largest possible audience. Combining feminist literary theory, women’s history, and biographical criticism, each chapter presents a compelling study of a woman’s individual journey to political consciousness and the writings that resulted from it.</p> <p>Rather than discussing familiar issues—such as woman suffrage and eq

Author

Julie C. Ehrhardt

Publisher

Columbia: University of Missouri Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826215062

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Fiction, Political Science