Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction - Melissa J. Homestead and Pamela T. Washington
I. Serial Southworth
E. D. E. N. Southworth’s Serial Novels Retribution and The Mother-in-Law as Vehicles for the Cause of Abolition in the National Era: Setting the Stage for Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Vicki L. Martin
An Exclusive Engagement: The Personal and Professional Negotiations of Vivia - Kenneth Salzer
The Hidden Agenda of The Hidden Hand: Periodical Publication and the Literary Marketplace in Late-Nineteenth-Century America - Alison M. Scott and Amy M. Thomas
II. Southworth’s Genres
Illustrating Southworth: Genre, Conventionality, and The Island Princess - Kathryn Conner Bennett
Maniac Brides: Southworth’s Sensational and Gothic Transformations - Beth L. Lueck
Change of a Dress: Britomarte, the Man-Hater and Other Transvestite Narratives of the Civil War - Annie Merrill Ingram
III. Intertextual Southworth
E. D. E. N. Southworth: An “American George Sand”? - Charlene Avallone
Revising Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Sympathy, the State, and the Role of Women in E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The Lost Heiress - Paul Christian Jones
E. D. E. N. Southworth’s Tragic Muse - Karen Tracey
IV. Southworth, Marriage, and the Law
Poe, Southworth, and the Antebellum Wife - Ellen Weinauer
E. D. E. N. Southworth’s Reimagining of the Married Women’s Property Reforms - Elizabeth Stockton
“What Did You Mean?” The Language of Marriage in The Fatal Marriage and Family Doom - Cindy Weinstein
A Chronological Bibliography of E. D. E. N. Southworth’s Works Privileging Periodical Publication - Melissa J. Homestead and Vicki L. Martin
Contributors
Index