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In this sophisticated, impeccably researched volume, Lockwood demonstrates how in the period 1865-1915, both well-known and obscure New England women represented and performed 'history' in literary and historiographic texts and in creating heritage tourist sites. Essential.--<i>Choice</i>

All scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, not just those interested in literary regionalism, gender and sexuality studies, material culture, or performance studies will benefit from reading this volume.--Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature In this sophisticated, impeccably researched volume, Lockwood demonstrates how in the period 1865-1915, both well-known and obscure New England women represented and performed 'history' in literary and historiographic texts and in creating heritage tourist sites. Essential.--Choice Lockwood deftly reveals how much 'spectral fusions' performed the most intimate historicism of all, as past women's lives haunted and inhabited the very bodies of their unmarried subjects--American Historical Review Lockwood's contribution to literary and historical studies of nineteenth-century America is multifaceted.--New England Quarterly

In this sophisticated, impeccably researched volume, Lockwood demonstrates how in the period 1865-1915, both well-known and obscure New England women represented and performed 'history' in literary and historiographic texts and in creating heritage tourist sites. Essential.--Choice <p/>

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J. Samaine Lockwood is assistant professor of English at George Mason University, USA.

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