American Women Writers and Wars on Foreign Soil—Part One
Shelli Homer and Brianne Jaquette in the fifth and sixth posts of SSAWW’s series introduce readers to American women that write about war. Part one overviews the topic and discusses nonfiction writing. Part two turns to poetry and fiction and includes a bibliography of additional primary and secondary resources.
Continue ReadingBook Review: Informal Ambassadors: American Women, Transatlantic Marriages, and Anglo-American Relations, 1865-1945 by Dana Cooper
The wave of American heiresses marrying British aristocrats in the late nineteenth century has often added colour to studies of Anglo-American relations and been subject to specialist scholarly enquiry (notably Montgomery’s ‘Gilded Prostitution’ (1989)). Where Montgomery was more concerned with the social and cultural impact of these marriages and their relationship to a changing British aristocracy, Cooper focuses on five of the most prominent of these women as non-traditional diplomatic agents operating at a key period in the development of the Anglo-American special relationship.
Continue ReadingThe Lady Vanishes: American Women Writers and the Noir Canon
In the fifth SHAW post Stefania Ciocia revisits the noir canon. Dr Ciocia offers a new reading of the gender dynamics in classic films and texts.
Continue ReadingHow Nineteenth-Century White American Women Writers Have Facilitated the Rise of Christian Feminism
Rachel Griffis, in the fourth post of SSAWW’s series, connects white nineteenth-century American women writers with contemporary white Christian feminism.
Continue ReadingBelle, Books, and Ballot: The Life and Writing of Nineteenth Century Reformer Lillie Devereux Blake (1833-1913)
Ana Stevenson, author of the third post in the SSAWW series, focuses on the lesser-known author and activist Lillie Devereux Blake to introduce her life and work as an exemplary, albeit largely forgotten, nineteenth-century reformer.
Continue ReadingFrom National Histories of Advice Discourses to a ‘Transatlantic Domestic Dialogue’
The final three contributions in the SHAW series offer some distinct case studies. In the fourth post, Grace Lees-Maffei discusses the significance of moving from single nation accounts towards transnational history in her recent research project on domestic advice books.
Continue ReadingJob-hunting: An Early Career Perspective
Moving from postgraduate research to an early career perspective, the third SHAW post is an honest account about the search for employment. David Doddington writes about his experiences and provides useful advice for other scholars in this transitional phase.
Continue ReadingWhite American Women in Paris and the Life of Literary Modernism
In the second post of SSAWW’s series, Bethany Mannon explores how three lesser known white American women writers (Janet Flanner, Sylvia Beach and Kay Boyle) go beyond the “‘expected’ subjects of women’s autobiography.”
Continue Reading(In)Visibility, Race and Ethnicity in American Women’s Writing throughout the Twentieth Century
This blog series focused on American women writers, a partnership between The Society for the Study of American Women Writers and U.S. Studies Online, explores the field through several lenses that range from recovery to religion and from war to transnationalism. Leah Milne opens the series with a post about how ethnic American women writers tackle the idea and status of invisibility.
Continue ReadingSurviving a Long-Distance Research Project
In SHAW’s second post in their series, Charlie Jeffries shares her experiences of embarking upon a PhD about the US in the UK and gives practical tips for others thinking of doing likewise.
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