02234    a2200373   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001600136072001600152072001500168072001500183072001500198072001400213072001400227072001400241072001400255072001300269072001500282072001400297072002100311072002100332072001700353100001700370245005900387250000600446260003200452300001000484520135100494999001501845131702557120250317111620.0250312042016GB                   eng    a9781317025573  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 46.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aDSBF2thema7 aJBSL2thema7 aNHK2thema7 aJHB2thema7 a1KB2bisac7 a3M2bisac7 aDSBF2bic7 aJFSL2bic7 aHBJK2bic7 aJHB2bic7 a1KB2bisac7 a3J2bisac7 aLIT0200002bisac7 aLIT0000002bisac7 a813.32bisac1 aBrenda Ayres10aLife and Works of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, 1835-1909  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20160303  a328 p  bOver the course of her 57-year career, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson published nine best-selling novels, but her significant contributions to American literature have until recently gone largely unrecognized. Brenda Ayres, in her long overdue critical biography of the novelist once referred to as the 'first Southern woman to enter the field of American letters,' credits the importance of Wilson's novels for their portrait of nineteenth-century America. As Ayres reminds us, the nineteenth-century American book market was dominated by women writers and women readers, a fact still to some extent obscured by the make-up of the literary canon. In placing Wilson's novels firmly within their historical context, Ayres commemorates Wilson as both a storyteller and maker of American history. Proceeding chronologically, Ayres devotes a chapter to each of Wilson's novels, showing how her views on Catholicism, the South, the Civil War, male authority, domesticity, Reconstruction, and race were both informed by and resistant to the turbulent times in which she lived. This comprehensive and meticulously researched biography contributes not only to our appreciation of Wilson's work, but also to her importance as a figure for understanding women's roles in history and their art, evolving gender roles, and the complicated status of women writers.  c5662d5662