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In a series of sketches, regionalist writers such as Alice Cary, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, and Sui Sin Far critique the approach to regional subjects characteristic of local color and create a countertradition of American writing whose narrator serve as cultural interpreters for persons often considered "out of place" by urban readers. Reclaiming the ground of "close" readings for texts that have been insufficiently read, "Writing Out of ...

Fetterley's questions are often so crucial, her observationsrepeatedly so acute, that they force us to ask how we avoided them in thepast." -- Women's Studies International Quarterly ..".thoughtful, informed, and well written." -- Choice

This valuable collection... should shift the ground of discourse onmid-19th-century American literature." -- PublishersWeekly This unique collection has recovered for us the work ofsixteen women who wrote during the years when American writers were developing theirdistinctive styles and voices.

Sixty-four stories and sketches by fourteen writers are brought together in this groundbreaking anthology to trace a tradition of women's writing in America. Crossing boundaries of region and ethnicity, these works are by writers popular in their time but neglected in the twentieth century. In American Women Regionalists readers will find writing that charts the imagination and talent of some of our most compelling voices. Included in the col...