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Writing the trail : five women's frontier narratives /
For a long time, the American West was mainly identified with white masculinity, but as more women's narratives of westward expansion came to light, scholars revised purely patriarchal interpretations. Writing the Trail continues in this vein by providing a comparative literary analysis of five...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | For a long time, the American West was mainly identified with white masculinity, but as more women's narratives of westward expansion came to light, scholars revised purely patriarchal interpretations. Writing the Trail continues in this vein by providing a comparative literary analysis of five frontier narratives--Susan Magoffin's Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico, Sarah Royce's A Frontier Lady, Louise Clappe's The Shirley Letters, Eliza Farnham's California, In-doors and Out, and Lydia Spencer Lane's I Married a Soldier--to explore the ways in which women's responses to the western e. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781587297304 1587297302 |