Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers

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Articles in January 2002 issue of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers

• The Resisting Reader. (Plenary Remarks).(conference on American women writers)
  by Fetterley, Judith
• Women writers, new disciplines, and the Canon.
  by Rebolledo, Tey Diana
• Continuities with the past/blueprints for the future: scholarly, professional, and activist strategies for the new century.
  by Foster, Frances Smith
• Love, Hunger, and grace: loss and belonging in the poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes and Joy Harjo.(Critical Essay)
  by Y Gibson, Eliza Rodriguez
• University of Illinois alumni. (Plenary Remarks).(history of women's writing)
  by Baym, Nina
• "Somewhere along the line I lost myself": recreating self in the war diaries of Natalie Crouter and Elizabeth Vaughan.(Critical Essay)
  by McNeill, Laurie
• Presidential address.(mission of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers)
  by Harris, Sharon M.
• A husband's jealousy: antebellum murder trials and Caroline Lee Hentz's 'Ernest Linwood.'(Critical Essay)
  by Keetley, Dawn
• Digitizing the past: using electronic texts in scholarship and the classroom.
  by Ellis, Scott
• Vision to visionary: the New Negro Woman as cultural worker in Jessie Redmon Fauset's 'Plum Bun.'(Critical Essay)
  by Tomlinson, Susan
• Captivity, childbirth, and the civil war in Harriet Prescott Spofford's "Circumstance".(Critical Essay)
  by Gaul, Theresa Strouth
• Gendering the debate over African Americans' education in the 1880s: Frances Harper's reconfiguration of Atticus Haygood's Philanthropic model.
  by Robbins, Sarah
• Tiresias speaks: Sarah Winnemucca's hybrid selves and genres.(Critical Essay)
  by Carpenter, Cari M.
• Editors' note.(Editorial)
• "The Negro never knew": Emily Dickinson and racial typology in the nineteenth century.(Critical Essay)
  by Bennett, Paula Bernat
• "I owe no one a penny": labor and female subjectivity in the working-class diaries of Lizzie Goodenough.(Critical Essay)
  by Shearer, Laura Baker
• Rebecca Harding Davis's "second life"; or "her hands could be trained as well as his".(female sexuality in the short stories of Rebecca Harding Davis)(Critical Essay)
  by Stoner, Ruth
• "I don't like strangers on the sabbath": theology and subjectivity in the journal of Esther Edwards Burr.(Critical Essay)
  by Harde, Roxanne