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In this 2010 book, Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at style as a medium through which gender can be signified and reshaped. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing.

American fiction --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Women and literature --- United States --- History --- 19th century --- Romanticism --- Feminism and literature --- Aesthetics in literature --- Women authors [American ] --- Aesthetics --- Style [Literary ] --- Sex differences --- Fuller, Margaret --- Criticism and interpretation --- Stephens, Ann Sophia --- Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth --- Spofford, Harriet Prescott --- Women authors, American --- Literary style --- Aesthetics in literature. --- American women authors --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Literature --- Style, Literary --- Language and languages --- Rhetoric --- History and criticism. --- Aesthetics. --- Sex differences. --- Style --- Arts and Humanities

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