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B O OK REVIEWS The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories. By Elizabeth Oakes Smith. Edited by Caroline M. Woidat. Toronto: Broadview Press, 2015. 332 pp. $22.95 paper/$15.95 pdf, ebook. Timothy H. Scherman, Northeastern Illinois University It's not every day that we can identify the crucial turn in the recovery of a major American woman writer, but I would argue that the publication of this book signals just such a privileged moment. Featured in various book chapters, scholarly essays, and conference papers appearing irregularly since the 1970s, Elizabeth Oakes Smith (180693) has figured most prominently in published scholarship for her poetry, having even been represented in Cheryl Walker's The Nightingale's Burden (1982) as one of a small number of writers representing a "composite" view of the nineteenth-century woman poet (6786). But in the absence of editions like this from Broadview, our ability to incorporate Oakes Smith more fully into our research and teaching has been hindered by the general difficulty of physically accessing and sharing standard editions of her work, an enormous amount of which still awaits recovery in manuscript collections or rare copies of gift books and annuals. In this light, the availability of this well-researched edition
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