Table of Contents:
  • American Women Writers and the Periodical: Creating a Constituency, Opening a Dialogue / Aleta Feinsod Cane and Susan Alves
  • Social and Political Advocacy. Margaret Fuller's Tribune Dispatches and the Nineteenth-Century Body Politic / Annamaria Formichella Elsden. Gendering Gilded Age Periodical Professionalism: Reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Hearth and Home Prescriptions for Women's Writing / Sarah Robbins. Parental Guidance: Disciplinary Intimacy and the Rise of Women's Regionalism / Janet Gebhart Auten. Kate Chopin and the Periodical: Revisiting the Re-Vision / Bonnie James Shaker
  • Gender Roles, Social Expectations, and the Woman Writer. The Heroine of Her Own Story: Subversion of Traditional Periodical Marriage Tropes in the Short Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Forerunner / Aleta Feinsod Cane. Emma Goldman, Mother Earth, and the Little Magazine Impulse in Modern America / Craig Monk.
  • "An Ardor That Was Human, and a Power That War Art": Rebecca Harding Davis and the Art of the Periodical / Michele L. Mock
  • Refashioning the Periodical. Lowell's Female Factory Workers, Poetic Voice, and the Periodical / Susan Alves. Redefining the Borders of Local Color Fiction: Maria Cristina Mena's Short Stories in the Century Magazine / Amy Doherty. Zitkala-Sa and the Commercial Magazine Apparatus / Charles Hannon. "A Deeper Purpose" in the Serialized Novels of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Michelle Campbell Toohey.