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Texas women writers : a tradition of their own
- Title
- Texas women writers : a tradition of their own / edited by by Sylvia Ann Grider & Lou Halsell Rodenberger.
- Publication
- College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS266.T4 T49 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 461 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- A critical survey of over 150 years of Texas women writers, including fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and dramatists.
- Series Statement
- Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; no. 8
- Uniform Title
- Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; no. 8.
- Subjects
- American literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Texas > In literature
- Texas > Intellectual life
- Women > Intellectual life
- Literature
- Intellectual life
- Women and literature > Texas
- Women > Texas > Intellectual life
- Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Texas
- American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- American literature > Texas > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-432) and index.
- Contents
- "The astonishing proportions": nonfiction literature, 1830-1920 / Fane Downs -- Fiction by Texas women, 1846-1920 / Carole Wolf -- Mabel Major / Joyce Gibson Roach -- Karle Wilson Baker and Charlotte Baker Montgomery / Pamela Lynn Palmer -- Ruth Cross / Sylvia Whitman -- Loula Grace Erdman / Ernestine Sewell -- Jewel Gibson / Melvin Rosser Mason -- Elithe Hamilton Kirkland / Ernestine Sewell -- Katherine Anne Porter / Janis P. Stout -- Dorothy Scarborough / Sylvia Ann Grider -- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey / Joyce Thompson -- Laura Furman, Beverly Lowry, and Shelby Hearon / Patrick Bennett -- Jane Gilmore Rushing / Cheryl Key and Peggy Skaggs -- Carolyn Osborn / Tanya Long Bennett and Lou Halsell Rodenberger -- A reflection of place and history: the short story / Lou Halsell Rodenberger -- Let the works define the field: contemporary creative nonfiction / Mallory Young -- Well-told tales: children's book writers / Laurie Dudley -- Ever radical: a survey of Tejana writers / Bryce Milligan -- A developing tradition: African-American writers / Lou Halsell Rodenberger -- Literary traditions in works by African-American playwrights / Patricia R. Williams -- From lady to laureate: Texas women poets, 1836-1936 / Betty Sue Flowers -- The buried life: Texas women poets, 1920-1960 / Paul Christensen -- Exploring the new psychic geography: Vassar Miller, Jan Epton Seale, and Sandra Lynn / Betsy Feagan Colquitt -- Three contemporary poets: Naomi Shihab Nye, Pattiann Rogers, and Betsy Feagan Colquitt / Jan Epton Seale -- Emerging from the wings: Texas women dramatists / William B. Martin -- Judith Rigler -- Judy Alter -- Fran Vick -- Jane Tanner -- Nancy Baker Jones.
- ISBN
- 0890967520
- 9780890967522
- 0890967652
- 9780890967652
- LCCN
- 97007048
- OCLC
- ocm36379809
- 36379809
- SCSB-2129480
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library