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Antebellum American women writers and the road : American mobilities /
A study of American women s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;
5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "What hath befallen me": sites of contestation in Sarah Beavis's two narratives of her adventures on the Mississippi River
- "With the wind rocking the wagon": women's narratives of the way West
- The politics of mobility: self and nation in-(between) Margaret Fuller's Summer on the lakes
- "A higher call": mobility, spirituality, and social uplift in the narratives of Maria Stewart and Jarena Lee
- Circulations of body and word: women's slave narratives
- Domesticating the road in the wide world of antebellum women's novels
- Touristic writing by antebellum women sightseers
- Jane Cazneau and Margaret Fuller: the politics of mobility, manifest destiny and revolution.