The Gender of Freedom : Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere /

In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the workings of the literary public sphere-from its colonial emergence through the antebellum flourishing of sentimentalism. Placing representations of and by women at the center rather than the margin of the pub...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Temas:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Gender of Freedom and Women in Public
  • 1 Gender, Liberal Theory, and the Literary Public Sphere
  • 2 Puritan Bodies and Transatlantic Texts
  • 3 Contracting Marriage in the New Republic
  • 4 Sociality and Sentiment
  • Coda: Queering Marriage-Emily Dickinson and the Poetics of Title
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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