How Celia Changed Her Mind and Selected Stories: Rose Terry Cooke

by Elizabeth Ammons (Editor)

Overview

This anthology of fiction by Rose Terry Cooke contains eleven stories, drawn together for the first time in one volume, that reflect the whole spectrum of Cooke's career from the 1850s to the 1890s. It restores to American literature the work of a writer highly admired in her own day and increasingly recognized today as an important figure in the development of realism, the evolution of regionalism as a literary form, and the emergence of women writers in nineteenth-century fiction.

Cooke's stories are rich literarily and historically; her command of dialect, ear for dialogue, dramatic sense, and ability to draw interesting, memorable characters all distinguish her work. This reissue of some of her best work represents an important contribution to the canon of American literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813511665
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	05/01/1986
Series:	American Women Writers
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Ammons is Associate Professor of English and of American Studies at Tufts University. She is the editor of Critical Essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe and the author of Edith Wharton's Argument with America.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Selected Bibliography
A Note on the Text

Maya, the Princess
My Visitation
The Ring Fetter
Freedom Wheeler's Controversy with Providence
Mrs. Flint's Married Experience
How Celia Changed Her Mind
Miss Lucinda
Dely's Cow
Miss Beulah's Bonnet
Too Late
Some Account of Thomas Tucker

Explanatory Notes

Editorial Reviews

This series is an ambitious, exciting, and highly valuable contribution to the reclamation of American women's lost literature.

Joyce Carol Oates