Susan J. Rosowski

Bio: Susan J. Rosowski is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Romanticism. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications receiving 108 citations.

Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice

Abstract: This biography aims to explore the connections between Cather's artistic and her psychological growth. Using Cather's personal and professional correspondence the book aims to deal openly and seriously with her lesbianism, the importance to her of her female friends, and her work. An assessment is made of the impact of the need for her to conceal her sexual identity, and her childhood, adolescence, young womanhood and apprenticeship are explored. The author paints a picture of the artist as a young woman and reveals the complex interplay between Cather's life and her work.

Henry James and Queer Modernity

Abstract: Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Indiscreet anatomies and protogay aesthetes in Roderick Hudson and The Europeans 2. The elusive queerness of 'queer comrades': The Tragic Muse and 'The Author of 'Beltraffio" 3. The Turn of the Screw, or: The Dispossessed Hearts of Little Gentlemen 4. Masculinity 'changed and queer' in The Ambassadors 5. Gratifying 'the eternal boy in us all': Willa Cather, Henry James and Oscar Wilde 6. 'The other half is the man': the queer modern triangle of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and Henry James Coda: 'Nobody is alike Henry James': Stein, James and queer futurity Notes Bibliography Index.

Uncommon Knowledge: A History of Queer New Mexico, 1920s-1980s

Abstract: New Mexico, the heart of the American Southwest, has been home to countless gay men and lesbians throughout the twentieth century. This dissertation explores the state’s LGBTQ past and investigates the connections and exchanges between urban and rural gay and lesbian identities, cultures, and political organizations in the 1920s through the 1980s. Using New Mexico as case study, I provide an alternative narrative to previous scholarship that focuses either exclusively on gay urban or gay rural lives and instead present an example of a migratory queer network where lesbians and gay men crisscrossed cities and country spaces. Gay and lesbian cultures and politics flowed in-­‐ and-­‐out of New Mexico especially during the creation of art colonies in the twenties, the construction of the security state in the forties and fifties, and the development of intentional lesbian land and gay male radical faeries communities in the seventies. These pivotal moments show how lesbians and gay men opposed institutions and practices of heteronormativity, resisted the use of sexuality as a tool of discrimination, and challenged constructed binaries: hetero/homo, public/private, and rural/urban.

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate

Abstract: Illustrations ix Foreword by Ruth O'Brien xi Preface xv Introduction: Ain't I a Person? 1 Chapter 1: How to Think about Childhood 15 Chapter 2: How to Think about Children's Rights 29 Part 1: The Privacy Principle: Stories of Bondage and Belonging Chapter 3: Boys in Slavery and Servitude: Frederick Douglass 51 Chapter 4: Girls at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender: Dred Scott's Daughters 75 Chapter 5: Growing Up in State Custody: "Tony" and "John G." 93 Part 2: The Agency Principle: Stories of Voice and Participation Chapter 6: The Printer's Apprentice: Ben Franklin and Youth Speech 111 Chapter 7: Youth in the Civil Rights Movement: John Lewis and Sheyann Webb 133 Part 3: The Equality Principle: Stories of Equal Opportunity Chapter 8: Old Maids and Little Women: Louisa Alcott and William Cather 159 Chapter 9: Breaking the Prison of Disability: Helen Keller and the Children of "Greenhaven" 180 Part 4: The Dignity Principle: Stories of Resistance and Resilience Chapter 10: Hide and Survive: Anne Frank and "Liu" 213 Chapter 11: Children at Work: Newsboys, Entrepreneurs, and "Evelyn" 234 Part 5: The Protection Principle: Stories of Guilt and Innocence Chapter 12: Telling the Scariest Secrets: Maya Angelou and "Jeannie" 259 Chapter 13: Age and the Idea of Innocence: "Amal" and Lionel Tate 279 CONCLUSION: The Future of Rights 304 Notes 315 Bibliography 337 Index 349

Writing Women's Lives: One Historian's Perspective

Abstract: From the start, biography played a vibrant and significant part in the growth of women's history, especially American women's history, as a well-respected and popular field within the historical profession. The insistence of feminist biographers that the personal is political, and that attention must be paid to the daily lives of their subjects as well as to their more public achievements, continues to ripple through the field of biography as a whole. To talk about biography is also to talk about the biographer, for the precise reason that behind every biography lies autobiography—that special spark that draws the biographer to the subject in the first place and the interaction that unfolds as the project moves forward (or stalls, as often happens). As feminist theory reminds us, the personal element is relevant to the broader intellectual agenda.