Jaime Osterman Alves: 2 books

Book cover of Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century
by Jaime Osterman Alves
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009

Seeking to understand how literary texts both shaped and reflected the century's debates over adolescent female education, this book examines fictional works and historical documents featuring descriptions of girls' formal educational experiences between the 1810s and the 1890s. Alves argues that...
Book cover of American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard
by Sandra A. Zagarell, Margaret A. Amstutz, Paul Crumbley
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014

Elizabeth Stoddard was a gifted writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism; successfully published within her own lifetime; esteemed by such writers as William Dean Howells and Nathaniel Hawthorne; and situated at the epicenter of New York's literary world. Nonetheless, she has been almost excluded...
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