Claiming the pen : women and intellectual life in the early American South /
In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern wome...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
[2015]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Toward an Intellectual History of Early Southern Women
- 2. "The Truest Kind of Breeding": Prescriptive Literature in the Early South
- 3. Religion, Voice, and Authority
- 4. Reading Novels in the South
- 5. Reading, Race, and Writing
- Conclusion: The Enduring Problem of Female Authorship and Authority
- Postscript
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index.