I have begun my thesis research on American writer Elizabeth Stoddard and will complete my thesis writing this summer under the advisement of Dr. Lisa Vetere and Dr. Kristin Bluemel. I am reading Stoddard in terms of feminine scripts and narrative frames of the nineteenth century and focusing on social and economic contexts. Entwined in this study will be an analysis of Stoddard criticism with specific respect to both gender and historicization. Further, I hope to explore the implications and effectiveness of incorporating Stoddard’s texts into undergraduate and graduate courses. Below is my working bibliography.
Alaimo, Stacy. “Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgeson’s: A Feminist Dialogue of Bildung and Descent.” Legacy. 8.1 (1991): 29-37.
Basch, Norma. In the Eyes of the Law: Women, Marriage and Property in Nineteenth Century New York. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.
Baumgartner, Barbara. “Intimate Reflections: Body, Voice and Identity in Stoddard’s The Morgesons.” ESQ. 47.3 (2001): 185-211.
Baym, Nina. Woman’s Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820-1870. Ithacha: Cornell University Press, 1978.
Brown, Gillian. Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Brumburg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York: Random House, 1997.
Buell, Lawrence. New England Literary Culture: From Revolution through Rennaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Celikkol, Ayse. “The Morgesons, Aesthetic Predicaments, and the Competitive Logic of the Market Economy.” American Literature. 78.1 (March 2006): 29-57.
Coultrap-McQuinn, Susan. Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Crouse, Jamie.“‘If They Have a Moral Power’: Margaret Fuller, Transcendentalism, and the Question of Women’s Moral Nature.” ATQ. 19 (Dec 2005): 259-79.
Dobson, Joanne. “’Read the Bible and Sew More’: Domesticity and the Woman’s Novel in Mid- Nineteenth-Century America.” Amerikastudien. 36.1 (1991): 24-30
Feldman, Jessica R. “‘A Talent for the Disagreeable’: Elizabeth Stoddard Writes The Morgesons.” Nineteenth Century Literature. 58.2 (Sep 2003): 202-29.
Felski, Rita. Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Fichtelberg, Joseph. Critical Fictions: Sentiment and the American Market, 1780-1870. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003.
Fuller, Margaret. Woman and the Nineteenth Century. 1844. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1971.
Foster, Richard. “The Fiction of Elizabeth Stoddard: An American Discovery.” Geschichte und Fiktion: Amerikanische Prosa im 19. Jahrundert.” ed. Alfred Weber and Hartmut Grendel. Gottingen: Vandenhook and Ruprecht, 1972. 150-66.
Hager, Christopher. “Hunger for the Literal: Writing and Industrial Change in Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons.” American Literature. 77.4 (Dec 2005): 699-728.
Harris, Susan K. “‘But is it Any Good?’: Evaluating Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Fiction.” American Literature. 63 (Mar 1991): 43-61.
Harris, Susan K. Nineteenth Century American Women’s Novels: Interpretive Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Henwood, Dawn. “First Person Storytelling in Elizabeth Stoddard’s Morgesons: Realism, Romance and the Psychology of the Narrating Self.” ESQ. 41.1 (1995): 41-61.
Herndl, Diana Price. Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Howells, William Dean. “First Impressions of Literary New York.” Harper’s Monthly. 91 (June 1895): 70-7.
Humma, John B. “Realism and Beyond: The Imagery of Sex and Sexual Oppression in Elizabeth Stoddard’s ‘Lemourne versus Huell.‘” South Atlantic Review. 58 (January 1993): 33-47.
Kelley, Mary. Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford: Oxford University Press,1984. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Kramer, Maurice. “Alone and at Home with Elizabeth Stoddard.” ATQ. 47 (1980): 159-70.
Lanser, Susan. Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Matlack, James H. “Hawthorne and Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard.” The New England Quarterly. 50.2 (June 1977): 278-302.
Matlack, James H. “The Literary Career of Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard.” Diss. Yale, 1967.
Matter-Seibel, Sabina. “Subverting the Sentimental: Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard’s TheMorgesons,” Flip Sides: New Critical Essays on American Literature. Klaus H. Schmidt, ed. Berlin, Peter Lang, 1995. 15-42.
Matter-Seibel, Sabina. “‘Untranslated Signs’: Narrative Anxiety in First-Person Fiction Written by 19th-Century Women Writers.” Blurred Boundaries: Critical Essays on American Literature, Language and Culture. Klaus H. Schmidt and David Sawyer, eds. Berlin: Peter Lang, 1996. 81-98.
McClure Smith, Robert. “’A Peculiar Case’: Masochistic Subjectivity and The Morgesons.” Arizona Quarterly. 58.3 (Autumn 2002): 1-32.
McClure Smith, Robert and Ellen Weinauer, eds.. American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2003.
Merish, Lori. Sentimental Materialism: Gender, commodity Culture, and Nineteenth Century American Literature. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
Michie, Helena. The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women’s Bodies. New york: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics. London: Metheun, 1985.
Morris, Timothy. “Elizabeth Stoddard: An Examination of Her Work as Pivot Between Exploratory Fiction and the Modern Short Story.” American Women Short Story Writer’s. ed. Julie Brown. New York: Garland, 1995. 33-44.
Moore, Margaret. “Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard’s ‘Immortal Feather.’” Hawthorne and Women: Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition. Eds. John L. Idol, Jr. and Melinda M. Ponder, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
Penner, Louise. “Domesticity and Self-Possession in The Morgesons and Jane Eyre. Studies in American Fiction. 27 (1999) 131-45.
Putzi, Jennifer. “’Tattooed still’: The Inscription of Female Agency in Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgeson’s. Legacy. 17.2 (2000): 165-73.
Rubin, Gayle. “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the “Political Economy’ of Sex.” Toward and Anthropology of Women. Ed. R.R. Reiter. New York: Monthly Review, 1975.
Sellers, Charles. The Market Revolution in Jacksonian America, 1815 – 1846. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and class in New York, 1789-1860. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Stoddard, Elizabeth. “Literary Folk as They Came and Went With Ourselves.” Saturday Evening Post. 2 June 1900: 1126-7 and 30 June 1900 122-3.
—. The Morgesons. 1862. New York: Penguin, 1984.
—. “My Record of the Stage.” Saturday Evening Post. 4 November 1899 254-5.
—. “A New England Girl in Old New York.” Saturday Evening Post. 14 October 1899 274-5.
—. “Our Lady Correspondent.” Daily Alta California. 22 October 1854. The Morgesons and Other Writings, Published and Unpublished. Eds. Laurence Buell and Sandra Zagarell. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.314.
—. Poems. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1895. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Historical Reprint Series, 1997.
—. Stories. Ed. Suzanne Opfermann and Yvonne Roth. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003.
—. Temple House. New York: G.W. Carleton and Company, 1867.
—. Two Men. 1865. New York: Cassell and Company, 1888.
Stoddard, Richard Henry. Recollections, Personal and Literary. New York: Barnes, 1903.
Stokes, Melvyn and Stephen Conway, eds. The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political and Religious Expressions, 1800-1880. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1996.
Theroit, Nancy M. Mothers and Daughters in Nineteenth-Century America: The Biosocial Construction of Femininity. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
Tompkins, Jane. Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Weinauer, Ellen. “Alternative Economies: Authorship and Ownership in Elizabeth Stoddard’s ‘Collected by a Valetudinarian.’” Studies in American Fiction. 25.2 (Autumn 1997): 167-82.
Weir, Sybil. “The Morgeson’s: A Neglected Feminist Bildungsroman.” The New England Quarterly. 49.3 (Sept. 1976): 427-39.
Zagarell, Sandra A. “The Repossession of a Heritage: Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgeson’s.” Studies in American Fiction. 13 (1985): 45-56.
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