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"Focusing on a series of autobiographical texts published and private, well known and obscure, Writing the Pioneer Woman examines the writing of domestic life on the nineteenth-century North American frontier. In an attempt to determine the meanings found in the pioneer woman's everyday wr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Floyd, Janet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2002.
Temas:
American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Frontier and pioneer life > United States > Historiography.
Women immigrants > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
Women pioneers > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
Immigrants' writings, American > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History.
Autobiography > Women authors.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American prose literature > History and criticism.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Prose américaine > Histoire et critique.
Vie des pionniers > États-Unis > Historiographie.
Immigrantes > États-Unis > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Pionnières > États-Unis > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Écrits d'immigrants américains > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American prose literature
American literature > Women authors
American prose literature > Women authors
Autobiography > Women authors
Frontier and pioneer life > Historiography
Immigrants' writings, American
Women and literature
Women pioneers > Biography
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. A tradition of pioneers
  • 2. Private enterprise : the emigrant autobiographies of Kitturah Belknap and Susanna Moodie
  • 3. Recipes for success : Catharine Parr Traill's Empire of woman
  • 4. Domesticity and dirt : Eliza Farnham's Life in prairie land and Christiana Tillson's Reminiscences of early life in Illinois
  • 5. "A space in which to be imaginative" : Caroline Kirkland's A new home, who'll follow
  • 6. Plotting the golden West : autobiographies of the mining West
  • 7. "To recover those once lost and now forgotten" : Anne Langton's journal and memoir
  • Conclusion : writing the pioneer woman.

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