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Scholz, Anne-Marie Wilhelmina. "Domesticating Female Mastery: Reading Jane Austen in America, 1826-1926," Department of History, University of California, Irvine, May 1993.
This dissertation scrutinizes the reception of Jane Austen’s writings by such American cultural elites as John Marshall, Joseph Story, Eliza Susan Quincy, William Dean Howells, and Henry James as a means of gauging the significance of the woman writer in nineteenth and early twentieth century America. How, in short, did early theories of fiction include, rather than exclude, women authors? Focusing upon the effort to reconcile norms of conventional womanhood with artistry in the literary status of “realism,” I trace the construction of a female literary tradition of “ordinary life” and the ways that tradition was used to contain the meaning of the emergence of the middle-class woman writer, even as it dignified women’s writing with a literary pedigree.
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